Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman!
30.09.2012 14:12 · Notes · books
Read it. Wonderful book: funny cases, interesting stories and thoughts. Much of what was said is still relevant today, and some things even have gotten worse:
One other thing I could never get them to do was to ask questions. Finally, a student explained it to me: “If I ask you a question during the lecture, afterwards everybody will be telling me, ‘What are you wasting our time for in the class? We’re trying to learn something. And you’re stopping him by asking a question’.” It was a kind of oneupmanship, where nobody knows what’s going on, and they’d put the other one down as if they did know. They all fake that they know, and if one student admits for a moment that something is confusing by asking a question, the others take a highhanded attitude, acting as if it’s not confusing at all, telling him that he’s wasting their time.