Qi said:
If you are sure you listened to your teacher carefully during
the course, ask your school to fire your teacher then.
And teaching is fun too. What is "teaching"? Can one teach? "teaching" is
oxymoronic. One can only present and perhaps facilitate and enable, but
for learning to occur, someone has to be seeking knowledge. Isn't it
quite arrogant for someone to call themselves "a teacher"? Shouldn't the
focus be on learning, for why focus on something that can't be done (if
it can't be done, i.e.). This person is a good self-learner, to which I
am deeply greatful to my hero, the well-reknown Jack Handey
(
http://iamkraze.com/my-favorite-jack-handey-quotes-deep-thoughts).
People have various preferred or required modes of learning: allusion to
the many times recited "visual, auditory, tactile" learning modes. Most
people have varying degrees of all of those. There is more than just
those though. There is the inductive and deductive (reasoning) and the
associated top-down/bottom-up, and,
general-to-specific/specific-to-general "approaches".
"Language lawyers" surely must be bottom-up reasoners.while designers
surely seem to top-down reasoners. The detail first or the big picture?
Pick up the big pile of trash first or sweep up the crumbs first? The
methods can be had as "approaches" to solution development. When little a
priori knowledge exists, a bottom-up approach may not only be prudent,
but may be the only way to procede, while a top-down approach may very
well be prudent in the opposite case.
Anyone wanna bet that I can't work-in the term "language lawyer" in every
USENET post I make? (RHETORICAL and JUST KIDDING!!).