Understanding
Never make fun of someone because they ask a stupid question.
It's amazing how utterly befuddling something can appear if one is missing just a single key bit of information. To one who knows, it is completely and ridiculously obvious, but to the enquirer, the mystery can seem almost insurmountable.
So they gather the courage to expose their ignorance, and you take their sensitive, extended heart and squeeze it cruelly.
Ouch.
posted by Byran @ 2:25 AM
12 comments
12 Comments:
True, so very true. I am a classic person for asking "stupid" questions. But someone told me once that if you don't ask, you won't ever know, and you only prove your ignorance by not asking.
Ag
Well said, my friend. And here the Golden Rule applies as well.
"May I handle the hearts of others as I would have them handle mine."
Merry
Heh-heh, d'jou run into some problematic double integrals, partial derivatives, etc., By? :-) Yeah, I'v asked LOTS of "stupid" questions going through the calc series and just as much now in my computer science classes. I've luckily never gotten ridiculed or belittled for it, and often it's a question that is common to a number of students. The way I look at it, if another student knows enough more than me (read as "the average student") about the material that he feels he can ridicule me, he has no business being in the class. I run into those insurmountable mysteries every week in program implementation, and it makes one feel absolutely brilliant when one finally does get everything worked out properly. Silly, innit?
-pete
Nah, Pete, it was actually a reference to a question I asked an professor (which he didn't make me feel stupid about) which made me think of the subject. Yay for double integrals though. I've had to do a fair amount of them this term in my Stats class. Bivariate distributions, baby.
A teacher once told me that if I had a question and asked it, it meant that other people in the class had the same question but didn't ask for whatever reason. I believe her.
BTW, Petey (do you mind if I call you Petey?), you a comp sci guy? Where? I work with a comp sci guy, he's a real good guy.
Okay, I could snort. See Pete, you just have a "Petey" air about you, what can I say.
Sorry to disrupt the intelligent conversation going on here, but I had to comment because we have always called him that. He's so cute you just have to. :) Sometimes the Petey is followed by more, but I wouldn't want to humiliate the poor dear in here.
Ag
Yup, I'm in comp sci. Oddly enough, I'm also going to OSU, only it's one of the other OSUs. I'm at Ohio State, and we just TRASHED Michigan in our last game of the season! GO BUCKS!!! (ehh. . .ducks??) The way Buckeye football is built, as long as we beat Michigan we've had a succesful season. :-) Yay for Stats, too. What stats are you taking? I took a prob. & stat. class at the University of Queensland last spring that I found fiendishly difficult, in part because I hadn't taken some of the classes that were often taken before it in the Australian system, such as linear algebra, etc. I think it was much more heavily focused on probability than statistics. It is fun learning how to use Jacobian matrices, probability and moment generating functions, etc. . . .
Gnaarf!! Sorry, I somehow often neglect to sign my postings. That one was me. . . and yeah, Petey is fine. Thanks so much, Ag! :-)
-pete
Yay!!! Another Ohioan!!! I believe I was the only one...:) Lauren
Somewhat, yes; I'm a born and raised Marylander, but I'm adopted into Ohio I s'pose. :-) What part of OH are you?
-pete
PS Hooray!!!! I remembered to put my name down!!! Good for me!!!
Southern. right in the middle between Dayton, Columbus, and Cinncinatti. Lauren
Cool beans.
-pete
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