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When I was in college --names are elided to protect the guilty-- the school of education was a hot mess. There was a verbal meme around the campus that went so
by leed25d 5y ago
When I was in college --names are elided to protect the guilty-- the school of education was a hot mess. There was a verbal meme around the campus that went something like this:
those who can do
those who cannot do teach
those who cannot teach teach teachers.
- yarky 5y agoI thought this was true until I learnt bjarne did some teaching.
- EvilEy3 5y agoBjarne is an exception.
- zabzonk 5y agoBrian Kernighan also teaches.
- yellow_lead 5y agoMy brother had him at A&M. Heard he was great.
- ModernMech 5y agoI thought this was true until I tried to teach. Then I realized you have to really know what you're talking about if you want to explain it to someone else.
- paxys 5y agoI thought it was those who cannot teach teach gym
- comprev 5y agoSome years ago in the UK when teachers were leaving the profession in droves (stress, paperwork, and result of little actual teaching hours), one of the newspapers (The Guardian, I think) had a front page headline: "Those who can, leave"
- nicoburns 5y agoIn my experience, those who teach teachers have been uniformly excellent, impressive people (teaching is hard!). Those who teach are quite varied depending on whether they actually wanted to teach or are just doing it as a fallback.
- ntoll 5y agoThe ultimate source of this is Aristotle... the original is (from memory), something like this: Those who can, do; those who understand, teach.
- hedberg10 5y ago"What I cannot create, I do not understand" -Feynman Thus teachers must be creators first. Out of 100 teachers I had, that applies to... 3?