and to back you up in what you say, Gavin, a classic case is formal
study. When I was teaching, I tried to impress on the students, that
although all the info was - in theory - out there ready to tap into,
what was lost was structure and context. Sometimes it needed the
expert to deliver it in a way for people to have the epiphany.

and of course, there's the followup questions that are sometimes invaluable.

I heard a story of a guest lecturer traveling around giving guest
spots, who had a driver/PA on "tour" with him.

After a while the driver said "what you do is easy! I reckon I can do
that - I've heard the same lecture enough times".

so they made a pact that the next stop they would swap roles and the
driver would give the lecture.

Sure enough the driver did a good job regurgitating the same script
... until someone in the audience asked a pointed question. The guy
kept his cool, trying to hide he wasn't the guest lecturer.

"what a silly question" he said. "So, silly that, in fact, I'm going
to let my driver answer that question!"

context, and expert advice, is everything.




On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Gavin Baumanis <beauecli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> So,
>
> Anyone here planning on going to any of the pre-conference workshops?
>
> I'm still trying to get the powers to be - to agree to send me to
> Charlie's CF Server admin workshop.
> While most of charlie's information is available on his website and on
> the mailing lists he loiters upon.... there's nothing quite like being
> able to ask specfic questions and get specific answers on the spot.
>
> Gavin.
>
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