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Subject: Re: Feedback to Mr.��

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Russell Fung

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Date Posted: 14:09:14 12/28/01 Fri
In reply to: Jolly Tweety 's message, "Re: Feedback to Mr.��" on 02:09:18 12/28/01 Fri

It is very easy for students to fall into the "You are the authority, therefore what you say must be the truth" trap, or a similar "You get paid to teach us, therefore you are responsible to teach us the right thing" variation of the same trap.

Without going into the ambiguity of any teacher's particular qualification for teaching certain subjects or the embarrasing concept of who is the authority of what, I would like to point out two or three things, from my own experience.

(1) The best thing any teacher can teach you is not the details of any subject, but how to use a dictionary or to look for resources and references.
(2) Teachers are responsible for what they teach, but at the same time students are also responsible for what they learn.
(3) If a teacher teaches you something wrong, he/ she can probably get away with it, but if a student learns something wrong, i am sure that will show up in his/ her exam results and worse still, in all of his/ her future works. (so who should pay more attention?)
(4) It is a good practice to respect authority but not a good practice to trust authority.

It is very easy for teachers to make mistakes like 1+2 = 4 (or spelling/ grammar mistakes) when they are working on a blackboard, or typing into a computer, this happens even in universities. When the teacher concerned has more than 30 letters after his/ her name (Prof. XXX, BSc MIT, PhD CalTech, F. Inst P, IEEE, MSRP, APS), you can't really say he/ she is not qualified for the job. Even professors make silly mistakes like 1+2 = 4. So what do you do? Keep blaming them for the rest of your life? Or learn to accept that people do make careless mistakes, and not to take any claim/ statement at face value.

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