On 9/8/06, Radenski, Atanas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You are obviously way more intelligent than the average student whom we need > to teach. > Our job is to teach Python programming to anyone who may happen > to be in our > classes. What is good for you may not be good for ordinary beginners. > Ordinary mortals > usually do not find the meaning of life in the beausty of > import statements :-)
Ordinary mortals should. I don't like pandering to beginners, dumbing it all down for their sake. Arthur, a paradigm beginner at one point (an articulate one though) made it clear that *he* doesn't want dumbing down "to make it easier for newbies" either. He *hates* being condescended to (and I appreciate that). So I, for my part, as a teacher (professionally, I get paid), do NOT regard it as my job to dilute Python to whatever extent necessary. I talk about namespaces immediately, on the very first day, as I've chronicled in this archive. Teachers who don't: I compete with them, I say "here, you learn Kung Fu, there, they treat you like you'll never have skills." > > I think the professors are very wrong here. > > May be there are, or may be they are not. > > > Art > > Atanas And I *certainly* champion the right to take issue with "professors" even within their realm of maximum expertise (teaching, supposedly, but we many times discover otherwise). Kirby _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
