Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site hlexa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxm!mhuxi!mhuxh!hlexa!wjhe From: wjhe@hlexa.UUCP (Bill Hery) Newsgroups: net.rumor Subject: Re: Any news about the reputed bomb explosion in the UCB CS Dept? Message-ID: <4288@hlexa.UUCP> Date: Mon, 24-Jun-85 13:48:38 EDT Article-I.D.: hlexa.4288 Posted: Mon Jun 24 13:48:38 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Jun-85 03:44:07 EDT References: <1457@utah-gr.UUCP> <8@ucbcad.UUCP> <157@jendeh.UUCP> <5717@utzoo.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Short Hills, NJ Lines: 20 > > You seem to be confusing the notion of passing a course with learning the > > material covered by the course. > > > > You seem to be confusing the notion of attending lectures with learning the > material the course covers. Do you really think that listening to the > prof recite the textbook is going to teach you anything that you wouldn't > learn by reading it? I have yet to see a coherent explanation of why a > lecture is a useful form of teaching for properly-motivated students. > A question-and-answer session, yes, but not a lecture. > If the prof is only reciting the text, why have the prof? (I guess some of the college students today are illiterate. :-) ) Maybe I'm dating myself, but I seem to remember a time when there was a difference between a TEACHER and a vcr. When I taught, every class had room for questions and answers during the presentation. (I never did have to teach large lecture sections.) Bill Hery