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Topic: What does it mean to be a student -- ideal and reality?  (Read 1426 times)

Offline Bob

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I asked a similar thing on the teaching board about teachers.

What would the ideal teacher-student set up be?

And what is it in reality?  What should you do as a student?

For example, in reality I doubt the teacher knows everything -- So I should go find some information out for myself and not necessarily buy everything they say.
Favorite new teacher quote -- "You found the only possible wrong answer."