On 15/02/2015 10:44, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
> 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.
>

That is because you have academic interests. Most professional computer 
programmers, I work with. Do it because it is a job. Not for love.


>> 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.
>

Unless you can use your competitive dancing skills to be in front of an 
audience.

> 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...

And his throw away scales became the Brandenburg Concertos.

-- 

Regards
     Stephen

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