> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:11:04 -0700
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Schooling funding debate ... again (Was Re: Wifi leeches (Was:
> Multiple NAT layers))
>
> Alan wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:02:50PM -0700, Alan wrote:
> >>> And it's just you and your wife(presumably) that do the teaching?
> >>
> >> To be honest my wife does the bulk of the work. I provide emotional
> >> support as
> >> well as make her financially able to home school full time by working.
> >>
> >
> > So, it is your contention that your wife is the equal to 10 or more
> > (at least in HS) professional educators that, presumably, are adept in
> > the field they teach?
> > I mean no disrespect to your wife, I'm sure she's intelligent and
> > dedicated, but seems a stretch.
>
> A teacher doesn't need to be an expert on anything. They just need to
> know (or learn) enough to teach it.
>
I know a class that was taught that way- my high school C++ class. Our
teacher was about 1/2 way through the book, and had taught basic there for 10
years. He taught the basic class, and honors geometry, fairly well.
The C++ class was a horrid flop. He didn't understand pointers, memory
allocation, or OOP. I ended up teaching the class, with my limited 1 year of
hobbyist experience. It went better once he started letting me run things,
although I screwed everyone up on the list stuff at the back of the book(I had
never seen a linked list before).
You don't need to be a world class expert to teach a subject, but you do need a
decently deep understanding if you're going to be teaching someone. Knowing a
multiplication table is enough to teach it to someone else, but if you don't
know why its used and how to apply it as well, you can't truely teach it.
Gabe
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