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- From: mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: A Question/Proposal for "Health Care Consumers"
- Summary: Who says college professors are bad teachers?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul26.045954.9916@athena.cs.uga.edu>
- Date: 26 Jul 92 04:59:54 GMT
- References: <1992Jul17.190304.10063@highlite.uucp> <1992Jul21.135225.1@zodiac.rutgers.edu> <15820@pitt.UUCP>
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- >In article <1992Jul21.135225.1@zodiac.rutgers.edu> morris@zodiac.rutgers.edu writes:
- >
- >>However their teaching was ineffective because they did not know how
- >>to teach. It is the problem with most college professors - they are
- >>experts in their field but they have never been taught to teach.
-
- My friends and I, on making the transition from high school to college,
- were almost all surprised at the _increase_ in the quality of the teaching.
- College professors are specialists who are genuinely interested in their
- subject. They know _why_ it is interesting, whereas the high school
- teacher often has merely been handed a textbook and told, "Teach this."
- Knowing why your subject is supposed to be interesting makes all the
- difference.
-
- Sure, there are students who claim that college professors are all
- bookworms who can't teach. But -- seeing this from the other side of
- the lectern -- I get this complaint regularly only from _one_ kind of
- student, the kind who, if he were more honest, would say, "This course
- wasn't easy enough for me. Courses are supposed to be easy." And
- although vociferous, these are only a small part of the student
- population.
-
- Now back to medical science. (This was a discussion of health education
- in high school as I recollect.)
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