Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!drn.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!sn-xit-04!sn-xit-06!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: Daniel Morgan Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory,comp.databases.oracle.misc Subject: Re: Attention Experienced Professionals Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 18:11:56 -0700 Organization: Ye 'Ol Disorganized NNTPCache groupie Message-ID: <1097802802.813161@yasure> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <2so8jaF1njtukU1@uni-berlin.de> <18c7b3c2.0410090721.234e5fec@posting.google.com> <1097460250.413370@yasure> <18c7b3c2.0410131104.631e8235@posting.google.com> <1097720224.593786@yasure> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cache-Post-Path: yasure!unknown@oracle.advtechserv.com X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b5 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 31 Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.theory:26853 comp.databases.oracle.misc:113418 Lemming wrote: > On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 07:54:21 -0400, "Laconic2" > wrote: > > >>I used collaboration to the hilt, especially in lab work. If one student >>already "got it" and explained it to another student who didn't "get it", >>as far as I was concerned, real education was going on. Of course, I >>wasn't responsible for certifying these people. The only certificate >>Digital gave them was a certificate of attendance. > > > I concur. And perhaps surprisingly to those who have never worked as > a trainer, the person who gains the most from such collaboration is > often the person who you describe as the one who has already "got it". > One of the best ways to learn, or to consolidate learning, is to > explain it to someone else. > > Lemming I've learned 10X more about SQL and Oracle since I started teaching than I knew when I started. Some of it the result of being abused by Howard but please don't tell him I said so. ;-) -- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace 'x' with 'u' to respond)