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[Dave S]

On Friday 14 December 2007, Peter Korsten wrote:
> That's pretty cool. Teaching has always struck me as an interesting
> thing to do, to transfer knowledge to other people.

It certainly is interesting!

One thing I've learned already is that everything I thought I knew about how 
to solve problems can go out of the window and start over again!

Students have this uncanny way of finding whatever it's possible to do wrong 
and doing it - sometimes in a way that is so totally obscure it would never 
even have occurred to me to try it like that - then expecting me to be able 
to figure out their spaghetti and make it work.  Which I can, but it's 
somewhat taxing because I'm starting from a totally different point that's 
basically on alien turf.

So in many ways I'm learning a lot from them too - and that's great!  New and 
interesting challenges ahoy!  :-)

Cheers,

~Dave