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From: shankar@src.honeywell.COM (Son of Knuth)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Student preparedness
Message-ID: <14508@srcsip.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jan 89 22:36:00 GMT
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Reply-To: shankar@haarlem.UUCP (Son of Knuth)
Organization: Honeywell Systems & Research Center, Camden, MN
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In article <556@mccc.UUCP> pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) writes:
><sigh>  If we could only getthem to read the text BEFORE they came to
>class!  Then notes could be taken on what they didn't understand when
>they read it, and they would actually learn a lot more.

If we [students] could only get them [profs] to not lecture by going
through the text page by page, then maybe we would read the material
before going to class.  What's the point of reading something that you
know is going to be repeated when you go to class.

Catch-22.