Hi Rick,
-> Interesting that you learn best in a classroom.
Actually, that's not exactly what I wrote. Let me quote it again for
you:
-> SK> (although I'm always the type that learns best in a class-type
-> SK> setting. I'm too undisciplined and procrastinating without a
-> taskmaster SK> standing over me).
I hope you don't think I'm nitpicking, but those two statements above
don't mean the same thing.
I don't care whether I'm in a classroom, a library, or (my favorite
place) on the sofa. And I don't necessarily prefer lecture. I like an
independently paced course, and have taken such courses and enjoyed them
immensely.
My point is that I'm not a very good self-disciplinarian. I
procrastinate. If I enroll in a course, with deadlines and assignments
and someone else evaluating me, I tend to be more motivated to learn the
material. Actually, I had been surprised at some of the comments others
shared here about attendance in college. For the most part, I've noticed
little "attendance taking" in my college classes. I might skip the class
and read the text and do the assignment, and learn more from that than
from coming to class (depending, of course, on the instructor, the
topic, and the way the class is run).
-> I always learned best on my own, and I was a terrible student. My
-> grade 13 calculus teacher offered to let me do most of the course
-> work in the library and just show up for tests, and I gratefully
-> accepted.
Isn't it great when teachers do this? I had a calculus student three
years ago, that I essentially did the same thing for (he stayed in the
classroom with us, but I let him work on the second half of the text
because he already knew the first half). I wasn't saying that I don't
personally appreciate the same approach myself.
Do you see what I meant now?
Sheila
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