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On Sunday 10 February 2008 17:48, Paul Sutton wrote: ... > Do you need to be a teacher to teach something, if your knowledge is > good enough and you can communicate that knowledge you can teach a subject, I'm a bit weird but for me on the sciences side the 'Platonic' approach worked - Plato thought that we knew everything and just needed help remembering. For a lot of science you can walk people to a conclusion, paint them into a corner even, but let them work out the conclusion for themselves. ie Understand it. For your times tables rote is by far the best - we did up to the 12 times table in my first year at a simple primary school. Not that much fun to learn but these are facts that once learned are never forgotten. As for languages don't ask me - I know the methods we used at school didn't work for me - I learned more french in a fortnite in france than 6 years at school. But to teach requires the ability to communicate and without classroom discipline the time available to communicate is seriously diminished. You cant be a friend to 30 post pubescent kids and teach them. Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html