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.

I've also run into that in a number of technical courses I've taken over 
the years - I took a course on Advanced NDS Troubleshooting from Novell 
years ago, but I'd already co-written a book on the topic (in fact, we 
gave a couple copies away in class).  I learned a few things, but mostly 
they were things not in the course.  The instructor was good, but a few 
years ago I was teaching a similar class, and the instructor from that 
first class was a student of mine - and he learned some things he didn't 
know.

Jim

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