JumpStart by Robb Armstrong for March 23, 2019

(A-one-a and a-two-a) “Sit downnnn, you’re rocking the boat …”

Dana shows more brains than many.

I can’t agree. If you’re in the room to teach, it’s your job to help the pupils understand their personal “tricky bits”. And they won’t manage that if you’re so boring or confusing that they’re half asleep, or not paying attention any more.

Anyone who wants a classic example of an incredibly bright person who can’t lecture to save his life should look up the Youtube video of Roger Penrose at the Royal Institution. The man is an Emeritus Professor at Oxford, with a brain the size of a planet, who has made some massive contributions to mathematics and cosmology – but if you wanted to make an instructional video on how not to do it, most of the examples you need are right there.

I can’t agree. That’s your potential future staff there; a big investment. If you’re in the room to teach, it’s your job to help them understand their personal “tricky bits”. And they won’t manage that if you’re so boring or confusing that they’re half asleep, or not paying attention any more. Whereas interested and, yes, entertained students pay attention, and remember.

(Anyone who wants a classic example of an incredibly bright person who can’t lecture to save his life should look up the Youtube video of Roger Penrose at the Royal Institution. The man is an Emeritus Professor at Oxford, with a brain the size of a planet, who has made some massive contributions to mathematics and cosmology – but if you wanted to make an instructional video on how not to do it, most of the examples you need are right there.)

I seriously doubt very many young students today would find anything from “Guys and Dolls” entertaining—-unless you just want them to laugh at you for looking silly.

You ACTUALLY gave him that advice, Marcy?

That’s a very high compliment to teachers! They try to pass on necessary knowledge to their students who, most times, DO NOT CARE. If Wicky is that good, the staff had better listen; they are adults at work, not kids.

Guys and Dolls Marcy? Seriously? You should have said Hamilton

In the seminary, I took a course on Job. The professor was know as “the sleeping prophet” not because he slept, but because his students did. He spoke with a low pitched, monotone voice that drolled on and on and on. I managed to get much from his teaching but with great difficulty.

The NP teacher should make medicine more interesting, get students involved.

At least Wicky should play it like Robin Williams did in ‘Dead Poets Society’.

One of the few times I agree with Dana.

Marcy has it wrong. And this idea of entertainment to teach is fine for 5 year olds, but not 25 year olds.

When I hear “Guys and Dolls”, I still picture and hear “Luke, be a Jedi tonight!” (“The Simpsons” Season 10)… :-P