On 15/02/2015 08:34 AM, Thomas de Groot wrote:
> You are too pessimistic I believe (or the world has changed too much).
> Except for the last point (the Microsoft course) with which I agree, at
> all other levels I have been with people who genuinely wanted to /know/
> and to /learn/. Not all of them of course but a substantial part, yes.

I haven't met them. Everybody I've met regards having technical 
knowledge as only something "nerds" and "losers" have - including the 
people I work with, who are all professional computer programmers. They 
all know how to write C#, yet they seem to think that understanding 
relational algebra or knowing how floating-point arithmetic works is 
only for lamers.

> And I agree with John: you would be an excellent teacher.

Again, I don't know. I'm good at writing long monologues that nobody 
will ever read; interacting with a room full of live humans is quite 
different. It requires a different skill set.

My Dad tells me [so I don't know how true this is] that Bach was a 
virtuoso organ player, but a HORRIBLE teacher. He just couldn't 
understand why nobody else could play like him...

Post a reply to this message