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| On Jan 4, 12:35 pm, " wrote:
| ...where P is equal to Picture and W is equal to Word(s).
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| Building an engine -- or an airplane -- there are times when I fail to
| provide a lot of detail, partly because I ASSUME everyone KNOWS those
| pesky little details. Which makes me something of a fool.
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| I've taught a college course on Aircraft Systems for Pilots for
| maybe ten years now. I found early on that I had to back up a long way
| into some basic stuff, since most young folks now have no frame of
| reference regarding mechanical, electrical or hydraulic devices, or
| even basic hand tools, let alone specialty tooling. I often resort to
| using the water-in-a-garden-hose idea to illustrate electrical flow
| (pressure, volume and resistance) and have received a few blank looks
| from a few who appear never to have fooled with such a thing. City-
| bound apartment dwellers, I guess.
| So it's not unusual to get questions on really basic stuff. The
| problem is to determine how much you really need to cover to get the
| most students through without boring the bright ones or dumping vast
| volumes of information on them or spoon-feeding the lazy ones.
| Students, especially adults, should know enough that they have the
| responsibility to go look things up when they don't have enough
| background to understand the course.
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| Dan
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