Teaching

A moment from my day...five minutes ago...

As an experimental psychologist I teach an undergraduate class in statistics. The last test of the semester is tomorrow and a student came by to ask a question about Analysis of Variance. We sat in my office. She asked her questions and I explained, in as many innovative ways as I could, the logic of the F-ratio. Finally, the light goes on and she gets it. Ready for the test.

As she leaves she just keeps saying over and over, with tears in her eyes, "Thank you so much. Thank you so much."

I respond, "No thanks required. It's what I do. I'm a teacher."

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