Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-38390521-20190202122319/@comment-30967537-20190205135141

I remember many years ago I was on a short (I think it was a week) course for Delphi programming. The instructor was rambling on and everybody was nodding their heads and making notes. But I didn’t understand a point she made so I asked a question, her response was to repeat exactly what she’d just said! I again said that I didn’t understand, her response was to repeat it again! By now I was really irritated and so, even though it had just clicked, I decided to be contrary and responded “if I tell you I don’t understand, how do you think repeating the same thing three times is going to help, you need to explain it differently” which totally embarrassed her (she went bright red) and annoyed her as she was unhelpful whenever I subsequently asked a question. But the rest of the class agreed as they then also started asking questions and saying they didn’t understand. Knowing how to do something and teaching it are two very different things. Too often people are worried about appearing stupid in front of others so just say nothing ... and the bad teacher carries on being blissfully unaware and being a bad teacher.