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Diagnosable mental defects aside, I refuse to believe that there exist students who genuinely want to learn Java with a private tutor who understands the studen
by andreyf 18y ago
Diagnosable mental defects aside, I refuse to believe that there exist students who genuinely want to learn Java with a private tutor who understands the student's mental model of the world.
Students range from couldn't-care-less to passionate, not from stupid to smart.
- dcurtis 18y agoStudents range from couldn't-care-less to passionate, not from stupid to smart. Wow, I never thought of it that way, but it really makes a lot of sense.
- maw 18y agoYou don't honestly believe that, do you? I'm quite sure that both axes exist (and maybe others too).
- silentbicycle 18y agoI suspect students could be plotted on both axes, and probably several others (amount of background knowledge, for example) as well. It seems clear that smart/passionate will generally do well and stupid/CCL will generally fail, but that leaves smart/couldn't-care-less (know-it-alls who won't listen to anything in class) and stupid/passionate (who will probably need to put in extra time, but have a good chance). Everyone will fall somewhere in between, of course - those are just quadrants.
- coliveira 18y agonice, you just demonstrated that caring about the topic is all that matters to have a good chance of succeeding (not how smart you are).
- andreyf 18y agostupid/passionate (who will probably need to put in extra time) I think this view ignored the correlation between "put in lots of time" and "smart". All of the smart people I know have usually put in an extraordinary amount of time studying whatever they are good at.
- andreyf 18y agoErr, first sentence was supposed to end "... and still, the students fail".