What did you think of your computer instructors?

@WebMann (4731)
Canada
February 11, 2007 1:47pm CST
I have always had an interest in helping people and when I learned about computers I knew I had found a way to combine helping people and earning money, but... I found that a lot of computer instructors were not people persons and they intimidated a lot of students so that those students didn't learn nearly as much as they could have learned. I take a lot of pride that I have been praised up and down for my patience. The truth is that my teaching was very much tied into my ego and the more I helped people the better my self esteem was boosted. How did you like your instructors and did you learn as much as they were teaching?
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@blueskies (1186)
• United States
23 Feb 07
The most recent classes on computers that I have taken have relied heavily on text books. I found this method to be much more useful for me, because I could go back and review all the steps involved in each process until I got it right. You are right about most computer instructors not being "people persons". I think that many technically-minded folks are much more interested in technology than people; that's why they are so successful in the technical world.