Posted by Robert Hill on May 16, 2001 at 18:01:49 from 129.11.159.105:
In Reply to: posted by Mike Field. on May 15, 2001 at 03:23:02:
Andy Bolger writes:
"It seems slightly spooky to me that other people's thoughts could pass
through a living being without touching the sides as it were."
This is strongly reminiscent of an old, cynical definition of a leture -
I do not know to whom it is due - as a process for transferring information
from the lecturer's notes to the students' notes without it passing
through the minds of either.
I had heard this definition before I started at university and resolved
not to fall into that trap. So for most of my first year I concentrated
on trying to absorb the information during the lectures, not on producing
good notes.
Before the end of my first year as a student I came to realise that this
was a grave mistake. I couldn't remember what had been said in the lectures
and I couldn't make sense of my extremely patchy notes. From then on I
gave more attention to producing good notes.