Teaching Styles

[amiabledorsai]

No: HPFGUIDX 147789


> BAW:

> Which brings me to Prof. Snape.  His two fields are DADA and 
> Potions. What is distinctive about those subjects?  This--if you 
> don't do it right, you can get yourself or someone else killed.
> 
> Has anyone here been in the military?  Was your drill instructor 
> in any way cuddly?  
> 
> Anyone here in the Health Sciences? Any doctors, nurses, 
> pharmacists?  Were your instructors cuddly?
> 
> Anyone here studied the Martial Arts?  Were your instructors 
> cuddly? 

Amiable Dorsai:
Nuclear physics work for you?  How about high voltage electronics? 
Organic chemistry?

I've studied and/or worked with all three. I have never, in those
fields, encountered a Snape.  My instructors wanted me to learn, yes.
   As near as I can tell, they wanted me to do that without dying. 
One of them even went ballistic when a student knocked over a bottle
of concentrated nitric acid, then tried to walk away without telling
anyone about it (the student was expelled--rightly so).  But I've
never had an instuctor in those demanding subjects who picked out
scapegoats, tried to make students feel worthless as a recreational
activity, selectively enforced rules, or frothed at the mouth when
frustrated.  

Even with that handicap, I have managed to have a twenty-plus year
career in the sciences without killing myself or anyone else.

Just lucky, I guess.

Amiable Dorsai