All textbooks should contain a few deliberately placed errors that students should be capable of detecting. This way if a student is confused he might suspect it is because his textbook is wrong.
Starting that in the current culture would be...interesting, to say the least.
I still recall vividly a day that I found an error in my sixth grade math textbook and pointed it out in class. The teacher, who clearly understood that day’s lesson less well than I did, concocted some kind of just so story to explain the issue which had clear logical inconsistencies, which I also pointed out, along with a plausible just so story of my own of how the error could have happened innocently.
I ended up being mocked by both teacher and students as someone who “thinks he knows everything”. Because of course, we all know that the textbook author not only does know everything, but is incapable of making typographical errors.
Oddly, at the time I was remarking on the error to stand up for a classmate who was expressing confusion. She couldn’t understand why her (correct) answer to a question was wrong.
All textbooks should contain a few deliberately placed errors that students should be capable of detecting. This way if a student is confused he might suspect it is because his textbook is wrong.
Starting that in the current culture would be...interesting, to say the least.
I still recall vividly a day that I found an error in my sixth grade math textbook and pointed it out in class. The teacher, who clearly understood that day’s lesson less well than I did, concocted some kind of just so story to explain the issue which had clear logical inconsistencies, which I also pointed out, along with a plausible just so story of my own of how the error could have happened innocently.
I ended up being mocked by both teacher and students as someone who “thinks he knows everything”. Because of course, we all know that the textbook author not only does know everything, but is incapable of making typographical errors.
Oddly, at the time I was remarking on the error to stand up for a classmate who was expressing confusion. She couldn’t understand why her (correct) answer to a question was wrong.