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From: nevin1@ihlpb.ATT.COM (Liber)
Newsgroups: comp.edu,sci.math,sci.physics
Subject: Re: Student preparedness
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Date: 30 Dec 88 16:32:08 GMT
References: <4893@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <6435@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> <9238@ihlpb.ATT.COM> <1077@l.cc.purdue.edu>
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In article <1077@l.cc.purdue.edu> cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:

>Teaching should be done by those who UNDERSTAND the subject.

I disagree (in part, anyway).  Teaching should be done by those who can
CONVEY the material to others.  I have had professors who I am sure
understood the subject they were trying to teach, but they could not
convey that understanding to others.  (I felt sorry for some of my
professors with this problem; the result was that the students would sit
in other sections of the class to learn the material.  But when it comes
to my own education, I tend to be selfish.)
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