Teachers (was Re: LIMITS (Was: 286/SLT and HDDs)

I susepct., alas, that's anotehr Bad Thing that we have imported fro mthe States. Certainly I am told that this sort of thing goes on in schools over here now. I must ahve been a teacher's nightmare at school. No I didn't run around screaming. No I didn't attack people. 'All' I did was to realise that what I was being taught couldn't possibly be correct, or it contracted something taught last week, or soemthing like that. I would then raise my hand to ask a question and simply ask for an explanation. Often I didn't know the real version and I wanted to learn. Only problem was that the teacher didn't know it either. I once tied a poor physics teacher up in knots (metaphorically) by asking something that (although I didn't realise it at the ime) has _no_ clasiscla expaliation. I is a quatuum trick (athough it doesn't seem to be one). On the other hand, I never had a single maths or physicvs teacher that I regarded as really clueful. I am not sure about other subjects, the point about maths and physics was that in those subjects I'd read many other books so I'd come acrsso extra things... -tony