Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-ncis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!labrea!rutgers!att!ihlpb!nevin1 From: nevin1@ihlpb.ATT.COM (Liber) Newsgroups: comp.edu Subject: Re: Student preparedness Message-ID: <9342@ihlpb.ATT.COM> Date: 6 Jan 89 01:57:28 GMT References: <4893@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <6435@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> <5237@pdn.UUCP> <2145@faline.bellcore.com> <13160@bellcore.bellcore.com> Reply-To: nevin1@ihlpb.UUCP (55528-Liber,N.J.) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois Lines: 19 In article <13160@bellcore.bellcore.com> duncan@ctt.bellcore.com (Scott Duncan) writes: >What do people think about the issue of teachers not being able to answer >student questions? I think the 'image' of a teacher -- which students even >seem to want to maintain -- is that teachers have the answers. Indeed, if >they don't have them, why are they up there talking -- get somebody in who >does! I expect from my teachers the same sorts of things they expect from me. If they expect me to memorize the book for a test, I expect them to know the book inside and out. If they are more reasonable, I don't really mind it they can't answer a question right away. I find that my good teachers are usually interested in trying to find the answer to a question that they don't know right off the bat. -- _ __ NEVIN ":-)" LIBER nevin1@ihlpb.ATT.COM (312) 979-4751 IH 4F-410 ' ) ) "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, / / _ , __o ____ briefed, debriefed or numbered! My life is my own!" / (_