Re: Math makes me SICK ! ! !
From: Stan Brown (the_stan_brown_at_fastmail.fm)
Date: 10/27/04
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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 00:58:10 -0400
"Robert Israel" <israel@math.ubc.ca> wrote in sci.math:
>These make cute anecdotes, but should come with a warning:
>it's a bad idea to embarrass or humiliate a student, especially
>in public, even if you think they deserve it.
Hear, hear!
When I read these anecdotes, I hope and believe that they are the
snappy retort the teacher thought of but knew better than to utter
aloud.
Though god knows, sometimes it's tempting....
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fault, especially if it is really stupid. --Dave Barry
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