Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Killfiled, was DNA Offers New Insight Concerning Cat Evolution

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Vern Green wrote:

> > I know that we are starting to do that kind of thing.  I haven't wanted 
> > to prepare such courses myself.  The only thing I don't know about is 
> > exams and how they are administered.  I'm all for distance learning and 
> > I would expect students to learn just as well that way as with ordinary 
> > classroom instruction.  We all know that most learning is really 
> > self-instruction. You have to read the material and struggle with it. 
> > Teachers help, but most of the learning happens with the student alone 
> > with the materials (book, papers, homework assignments, videos, slide 
> > shows, etc).
>
> This concept was another hard thing for me to accept. I don't know where 
> I got this notion, perhaps it was the military, but I had this notion 
> that school would be an instructor standing up front of the class and 
> explaining the subject matter. When I started college it was a hard 
> transition because my instructors were like "Read Chapters 1 - 100 
> gazillion and be prepared for a test on all subject material"
>
> They would then go sit down and that was the end of it. If someone had
> a question from the material, they would "attempt" to answer it, but
> most of the time, they would fail miserably. That is what lead me to
> online learning, since I was learning the stuff on my own, I decided I
> might as well do it on my own time.

Where the heck did you go to college and who were your teachers?  I have 
never, never once, ever heard of anyone teaching like that.  You seem to 
think that all college professors don't teach at all but just sit there 
and then fail to answer questions.  That is amazing -- amazing that you 
believe that and amazing that it happened to you or to anyone else. 
Sometimes I think you come from a different planet than the rest of us.

I would also like to point out that I respond to the many claims you make 
on various topics, like the Simpson case or human-chimp DNA sequence 
differences, thoughtfully and with reference materials.  You never respond 
to those emails and you certainly never express gratitude for my sharing 
an expert opinion.  Why is that?

Mike

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