TITLE: Old Teaching Wisdom
AUTHOR: Eugene Wallingford
DATE: May 08, 2008  6:42 PM
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Not from me, but from
<A HREF="http://books.google.com/books?id=Dy8VAAAAIAAJ">
   The Common School Journal</A>,
an early-1800s primer on teaching:

<BLOCKQUOTE><EM>
Make no effort to simplify language.
</EM></BLOCKQUOTE>

Also:  Treat all students as equals, with expectation that
all participate and learn.  Teach where each student lacks.

I think I have a more detailed essay on this topic in me,
in terms of how we teach programming and software development.
But it will have to wait for another day.  In any case, my
agedness seems to be growing asymptotically faster than my
wisdom.
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