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From: Derek Johnson
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 03:43

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    A mistake that teachers often make is to assume that their students
are much like themselves.  If you are a physics teacher, it is probably
safe to assume that you are quite different than many of your students.
While mathematics may illuminate a concept for you, it may obscure it
for others.  Worse yet, it may serve as a crutch behind which the student
hides their lack of understanding, possibly without even realizing it.  I
was a good student, and yet I feel that my major in physics didn't give
me a good understanding of the subject.  How much worse did other, less
well prepared students fair?

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Derek Johnson                           Port Angeles High School
Physics Teacher                         304 E. Park
djohnson@orca.esd114.wednet.edu         Port Angeles, WA 98362
                                        (206) 452-7602
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