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Sounds like a great teacher. I had a prof who was a bit more sadistic/incompetent about this. He would incorporate a falsehood into his lectures, not always a
by quantumhobbit 17y ago
Sounds like a great teacher. I had a prof who was a bit more sadistic/incompetent about this. He would incorporate a falsehood into his lectures, not always and not always just one. When challenged he would admit it but if no one caught the mistake he would let us live on in ignorance. This was a fluid dynamics course so you could frequently find the "lie" by carefully going over the algebra in his derivations. I'm pretty sure this was just a clever ploy to conceal the fact that once in a while he did, in fact, make mistakes.
- yummyfajitas 17y agoI don't even try to conceal the fact that I make mistakes. I tell my students that I'll sometimes lie and often screw up, and that they shouldn't trust me. Sadly, they rarely listen. I'm told that 95% of what I say is right, and it's not worth the effort to figure out what falls into the remaining 5%.
- bugs 17y agoI find that most engineering teachers do this, at least in the upper level classes and especially to see if the class is paying attention. However the classes where it is done to see if people are paying attention are more often than not the classes that have a bad teacher who frequently makes mistakes, such as my dynamics teacher (thank god for hibbeler).