Re: gEDA-user: Teaching credentials (was geda cygwin package)

[Bill Gatliff <bgat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

DJ Delorie wrote:
> msokolov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Michael Sokolov) writes:
>   
>> To me it doesn't matter whethor or not you have a teaching
>> credential as in a piece of paper, but it does matter whether or not
>> you have the ability to teach, which I maintain is separate from
>> knowing the subject matter itself.
>>     
>
> At the beginning of the school year, my daughter asked for help with
> her algebra homework.  So, I explained the material to her again.
> "Why can't my teacher just *say* that then?  I get it when *you*
> explain it!"  It turns out my daughter just couldn't learn from this
> particular teacher.  So, we decided that this year *I* would teach her
> algebra - she does chemistry homework in algebra class now - and her
> math grades have improved.
>   

:)

I'd love a chance like that with my kids!


b.g.


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