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From: wendyt@pyrps5 (Wendy Thrash)
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Subject: Re: Student preparedness
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Date: 29 Dec 88 02:44:32 GMT
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In article <2141@faline.bellcore.com> dph@faline.bellcore.com (Daniel P. Heyman) writes:
>My advisor in graduate school tried handing out lecture notes
>prior to giving the lecture. He told the students they had notes
>of everything we was going to write on the board, so they should
>concentrate on the why and not the how, and to stop him if they
>didn't understand the why of a step. After a few classes he became
>completley frustrated when he looked up and saw everyone ( I was
>not in this class) copying from the board. He gave up before
>the term was over.

Taking notes during class need not be a rote activity.  I have found over
the years that I learn much more when I take notes, even if I never look
at the notes again.  I do not, mind you, merely copy down what is said
or written by the instructor, but do some editing in the process, correcting
his/her mistakes, etc.  I appreciate the discipline of note-taking; it's
just too easy to space out otherwise.  A professor who can't accept that
this is the way I learn is perhaps a bit too wise for his/her students' good.