什么是最好最好的老师 讲讲你见过最差劲的老师

讲讲你见过最差劲的老师  

My Freshman Football Coach in high school. He was a grade-A asshole.
We were doing drills practicing catching the football. He threw me a pass and I dropped it. He started yelling at me. I went back in line embarrassed. My friend was up next. Coach throws him the football. He drops it
too. Coach says nothing. Annoyed
I mumbled under my breath
“Why didn’t he get yelled at?” Coach: “What was that Doherty?!” (I fot I whispered like a freight train) Me: “Uhh…” Coach: “Take off
Doherty! TAKE OFF!!!” He didn’t say where to take off to
and I wasn’t going to ask. So
like Forest Gump
I just started running until practice was over.
After practice he came and talked to me. Stephen - the reason I yelled at you and not the other guy is because I expect more out of you. If I am yelling at you
then it’s because I expect more out of you and know you can get better.” It’s when we stop yelling at you when you mess up that you should begin to worry. Because if the day es we stop yelling when you mess up
it means we’ve given up on you.
训练结束后他来跟我说：“Stephen，我对你喊而没对别人喊是因为我对你期望更高。如果我对你喊了，那是因为我对你期望更高，而且知道你能变得更好。你表现不好我们却不对你喊时你才该担心，因为如果有哪一天你表现不好我们也不对你喊了，那就意味着我们放弃你了。”
Wow. That single sentence by a football coach taught me more about life in one sentence than any other teacher or class ever had. He was the biggest asshole I ever met. But he was the greatest teacher I ever had.
The one who first springs to mind was my PhD supervisor
Ken Crowe. He had a reputation for making grown men cry when they crewed on his racing sailboat
and other grad students were terrified of him
but I was fascinated by the topic he was working on
so I joined his group.
He gave me an assignment: to figure out what was causing muons to get depolarized in liquids. I knew it involved muonium formation
so I went off to learn all about muonium. After a week or o I came to Ken’s office to tell him about it. He listened for a few minutes and then yelled at me
“You have no idea what you’re talking about! Get out and don’t e back until you do!”
So I went away and learned more
better
about muonium. I really got into it
and a week later I came back to tell Ken about it. Again he listened for a few minutes and then threw me out.
Now I was starting to get mad. I bored down on the problem until I understood it so well that to this day it is one of my most proud acplishments. Then I went back to tell Ken what I had figured out. Again he interrupted me a few minutes into my presentation
at which point I said
“Shut up and listen!” Which he did. And when I finished he plimented me on doing some very original research. From that day forward he supported and promoted me until we became great friends and respected colleagues.
So don’t ever begrudge your “mean” teachers their high standards. They may spur you to acplishments you will be proud of decades later.