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To: LS

“It’s like you evaluating your doctor immediately after surgery, without knowing if the surgery was a success or not. The students simply lack proper information to do an analysis.”

Back when I was in Jr High we were asked to evaluate our teachers. I gave one teacher a scathing evaluation. I hated the guy.

About the time of my 50th birthday I realised that teacher I so hated was actually the best teacher I EVER had.
Practical experience and time had given me the wisdom to properly evaluate my teachers.


18 posted on 11/28/2018 8:34:10 AM PST by oldvirginian ( Buckle up kids, rough road ahead.)
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To: oldvirginian

Yes, sometimes we really dislike exceptionally hard teachers, though my very best two teachers were the two in college I could NOT get an A from to save my life.


19 posted on 11/28/2018 8:39:13 AM PST by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: oldvirginian
About the time of my 50th birthday I realised that teacher I so hated was actually the best teacher I EVER had.

I went to a Catholic high school. For Geometry, to fill-in for a year, the admin. brought in a retired, very old religious brother who probably earned his collar teaching kids in the 1920s. He was very rigid, had a clear process and system for teaching geometry. His teaching style, I thought at the time, was a window to the past, and very unusual by the early 90s. But If you followed his methods, you learned geometry.

Of course, a few of the kids (who weren't good students anyway) told their mommies things like "he doesn't let us ask questions" or "his system is old-fashioned and stupid" and a few activist mothers got this man fired.

I still learned geometry, and of course, the kids who complained still wound up doing poorly.

20 posted on 11/28/2018 9:18:53 AM PST by PGR88
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