I've had my bunch of favorite teachers/lecturers/instructors/gorillas as much as the next person, but I'd like to tell you people about my high-school computers teacher.
I'll start with a mild description. He's in his 40s, married with two children (one of them was in my class:). He is considered the 'high-level' computers teacher (meaning he is the only one who teacher 11th and 12th grade).
Now, I'll try to explain the idiocy factor of this, Moshe (*) fellow. I can sum it up in one sentence:
He does not know anything about computers.
Let me explain. There are some teachers who know a bit about, well, W*ndows, for example. This is not Moshe. There are teachers who know things about old technology but are not up-to-date. This is not Moshe. There are some teachers that just aren't the masters of Automata. This is not Moshe.
Moshe *does not know* computers. _period_. And, in addition to this, he's a m*ther-f#cker. For example, his hobby is to take 20 points off a 10-point question. Why? Cause he's an idiot.
So, you're asking yourself - how does this person teach in class. The answer is simple. He doesn't. He reads sentences from the book. And what if people ask him questions? He does not answer/answer incorrectly. And how does he check exams? Simple. All his exams are recycled questions from past years, together with the 'correct' answers [not that Moshe does not know the different between '*the* correct answer' and '*a* correct answer'. If your answer isn't "the" correct answer, you get points off.
That is how I managed to get my grade up from 47 to 97 on an exam. And that's how the average grade on 12th grade finals were around 50.
That's all. Just wanted to get some anger out.
Idiot.
(*) Whoever's wondering what a f*cked-up name that is, well, I live in Israel. Go figure those Israeli names. [Mine is Avital. Go figure *that*!]
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I'll start with a mild description. He's in his 40s, married with two children (one of them was in my class :). He is considered the 'high-level' computers teacher (meaning he is the only one who teacher 11th and 12th grade).
Now, I'll try to explain the idiocy factor of this, Moshe (*) fellow. I can sum it up in one sentence:
He does not know anything about computers.
Let me explain. There are some teachers who know a bit about, well, W*ndows, for example. This is not Moshe. There are teachers who know things about old technology but are not up-to-date. This is not Moshe. There are some teachers that just aren't the masters of Automata. This is not Moshe.
Moshe *does not know* computers. _period_. And, in addition to this, he's a m*ther-f#cker. For example, his hobby is to take 20 points off a 10-point question. Why? Cause he's an idiot.
So, you're asking yourself - how does this person teach in class. The answer is simple. He doesn't. He reads sentences from the book. And what if people ask him questions? He does not answer/answer incorrectly. And how does he check exams? Simple. All his exams are recycled questions from past years, together with the 'correct' answers [not that Moshe does not know the different between '*the* correct answer' and '*a* correct answer'. If your answer isn't "the" correct answer, you get points off.
That is how I managed to get my grade up from 47 to 97 on an exam. And that's how the average grade on 12th grade finals were around 50.
That's all. Just wanted to get some anger out. Idiot.
(*) Whoever's wondering what a f*cked-up name that is, well, I live in Israel. Go figure those Israeli names. [Mine is Avital. Go figure *that*!]