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From: brianm@sco.COM (Brian Moffet)
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Subject: Re: Student preparedness (you know...)
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Date: 22 Dec 88 17:34:58 GMT
References: <15895@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <6498@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
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In article <6498@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> elg@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Eric Green) writes:
-in article <15895@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>, bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante) says:
->>>The way I see it, a teacher simply cannot conduct a course when
->>>there are both "geniuses" and "dead weight" in the same classroom.
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-level. The end result is that in a class where the two are mixed,
-either concepts pass over the head of the poorer students, or the
-better ones are bored and frustrated.
		 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

This is very important.  Many really intelligent people
have a common learning disability of "short attention span"
because they were bored.   Until these people find something
they are really interested in, they have a hard time learning
it (if it is not trivial).


brian moffet
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