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From: wjhe@hlexa.UUCP (Bill Hery)
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Subject: Re: Any news about the reputed bomb explosion in the UCB CS Dept?
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Date: Mon, 24-Jun-85 13:48:38 EDT
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> > 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