Posted by serious answer on May 13, 2003 at 22:02:07:
In Reply to: Teachers vs. Students and Schooling posted by serious question on May 13, 2003 at 21:29:53:
-- There may not be 200, but there are dozens who - without drawing particular attention to themselves - have already set new benchmarks.
-- Some of those posts you mentioned were put up by pranksters who "pushed the envelope" - seeing what they could throw up on tubenet that would "get by" the webmaster.
-- Your #3 and #4 are true quite often. The mediocre will attract like students. The remarkable will attract remarkable students. Typically, remarkable teachers are quite busy doing remarkable things and don't have a lot of time to teach remarkable students. This works out well, as very students are remarkable.