On 19-8-2011 17:44, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:32:22 +0100, Invisible wrote:
>
>>>> ...but it was somewhat baffling to walk into a classroom and discover
>>>> that I know more about the subject than the lecturer does.
>>
>>> Oh c'mon now!  Anyone who can think his way out of a wet paper bag has
>>> had this experience repeatedly. We're just socially trained not to say
>>> so.
>>
>> What, that the person being paid to teach you something knows less about
>> it than you already do?
>
> Yes, it's not that uncommon.  In my case, it was an assembly language
> class I took in college - it started from how to use MASM, but I'd
> already used TASM quite extensively - but the course was a required
> course in my degree program.

Mine were e.g. in computer graphics related subjects. We had one teacher 
that tried to keep ahead of the class by one week, but failed because of 
over consumption of C2H5OH. To this day he is also the only person I 
have ever met with a technical university degree that did not understand 
the equation for a straight line.
The practical part was more fun, but we had a japanese arts student to 
help us there...
The exam was a joke too, we could use our book and the questions were 
like 'give the definition of...', 'what two problems are there when 
using technique X'.
Aside: my main surprise in this was that the students from CS simply 
accepted this level of teaching, many did not even notice.

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