Jim, Your anecdote about the colleague who thought simply enlarging was the secret of curricular success reminded me of my own experience as a lowly instructor with our department head, an old soul who had survived the Japanese prison camps in Asia during WW 2. Department meetings often consisted of his berating us to teach harder, his repeated shibboleth being "I've been doing it that way for forty years." I once asked, "What if you've been doing it wrong for forty years?" and got bawled out, by him for "challenging authority" and by veteran colleagues who resented my having unnecessarily prolonged another boring meeting. Best, George
Jim, Your anecdote about the colleague who thought simply enlarging was the secret of curricular success reminded me of my own experience as a lowly instructor with our department head, an old soul who had survived the Japanese prison camps in Asia during WW 2. Department meetings often consisted of his berating us to teach harder, his repeated shibboleth being "I've been doing it that way for forty years." I once asked, "What if you've been doing it wrong for forty years?" and got bawled out, by him for "challenging authority" and by veteran colleagues who resented my having unnecessarily prolonged another boring meeting. Best, George
I know the scenario all too well!
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