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   -=> JOE MACKEY wrote to GEORGE POPE <=-   
      
    JM>    That goes for most any subject.  You have to have a love of any   
    JM>    subject to be a good teacher.   
    JM>    Some just read from the book.  Poor teachers.   
    JM>    Others will make whatever the subject happens to be come alive.   
    JM>    Good teacher.   
      
   I struggled with math all through high school and college; I ended up    
   getting into computers because I flunked a math class my senior year and    
   needed another class for credit. The only class taught semester by semester    
   was computer problem solving, as it was called.   
      
   I went to a small private college, and had a calculus teacher who would keep    
   office hours for as long as people needed him. Gave insane amounts of    
   homework, and had an love of math that rubbed off. He was one of the first    
   people to practically apply computers and technology; we could use step    
   programmable calculators for everything in the class and learned how to    
   automate everything. His vision was that in the future, computers would do    
   all of the graphing and "heavy lifting" and we'd be freed to do the thinking    
   and creating. He was right.   
      
   We had a month-long semester between fall and spring semesters. You could    
   take one course 5 days a week, 4 hours a day and get full credit for it.    
   Some people got creative, like a french class in Paris. He took a handful of    
   kids on his sailboat out of the San Francisco bay and sailed for a couple of    
   weeks using sextants and HP calculators to navigate.   
      
   My statistics teacher the following year read the book verbatim in a droll    
   monotone, stopping only to draw sloppy diagrams on the chalkboard.   
      
      
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