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Words of Wisdom from Seth Roberts

By Stuart Buck, Esq.

Here: Professors teach how to be professors. Most students don?t want to be professors. Every Berkeley prof I ever met was extremely good at research; a few were extremely good lecturers. And every one of them sounded like an idiot the moment they started talking about how they taught ?critical thinking? or whatever grand-sounding term they had for it. ?Teaching students to think? was a common way to describe teaching students how to be professors. To say such a thing to a psychology professor is like saying to a chemistry professor that the world consists of four elements (earth, air, fire, water). ?Are you aware how stupid you sound?? I felt like saying. But instead I would say that there are many kinds of thinking.

Full post as published by The Buck Stops Here on August 30, 2009 (boomark / email).