On Jun 12, 2007, at 2:31 PM, Herbert Graf wrote:

> 4 years of lectures, quizzes, exams and many labs, and something as
> simple as the little line on a diode was still something they didn't
> know.

I could see that happening in a few cases, perhaps.  But what I can't  
figure out is after all that study, why that student couldn't  
conceive of a way to test the diode in their hand, safely, that would  
prove which end was which.

As that student, wouldn't you know, after four years of study about  
electronics, that you couldn't put a circuit together and make it do  
something, yet?  Wouldn't you be asking around to see if a teacher or  
anyone else could help you build something?

There's some interesting underlying problem here -- what exactly do  
these kids think "real life" is when they get done with school?  What  
do they think they're going to be doing, if they're studying  
electronics?

--
Nate Duehr
nate@natetech.com



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