Explaining Modern Technology

Abstract

A couple of years ago, on a subway ride in Berlin, I overheard a conversation between two students, and I remember one of them saying, “Last semester I took Dr. Anderson’s course on computer electronics. But I should have stayed in bed instead of getting up early each Tuesday morning in order to attend his eight o’clock lecture, since nobody learned anything from this course. This semester, I am attending the lectures of Dr. Heymann, and she is the best professor I ever had. Her explanations are so illustrative that even the most complex subjects have become absolutely clear to me.” This made me think back to my own years in high school and college, and I remembered my math teacher as the one whom I still would grade an A plus, while at the same time, I remembered some other teachers who did a rather poor job. I am convinced that almost all of my readers have experienced extremely good teachers and others who weren’t worth the salary they were paid.