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From: dykimber@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Daniel Yaron Kimberg)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Student preparedness
Message-ID: <5131@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 4 Jan 89 18:49:48 GMT
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In article <13160@bellcore.bellcore.com> duncan@ctt.bellcore.com (Scott Duncan) writes:
>What techniques do people use to produce an atmosphere where questions that do
>not have immediate answers get asked and pursued?

I've had a few classes in which professors responded to questions which didn't
have easy answers by saying something like, "Gee, that sounds like a good
paper topic to me!"  Well, not exactly like that, but you get the idea.
Incidentally, a professor in an introductory course I once took at one point
during a class (as opposed to the larger lectures) asked a particular student
in the class, whom he knew had done research in a certain area, if she knew
the answer to a particular question.  As far as I can tell, no one had their
confidence in the professor remarkably shaken.

                                                    -Dan