Class room standards

[finneco]

I think I've be come distressingly forward in my classes. After much time of acting like I know what I am doing in other parts of life, it's hard to scale back and treat teachers deferentially. Sure, I respect their experience and knowledge, but that doesn't mean I will sit there passively if they answer a question incompletely or wrong. And if I

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[ramou]

Overqualification can hide relevant points. Too much abstraction can hide relevant points. When qualifying in class (or correcting), I'll often go so meta as to ask the professor if the distinction I'm making is so fine as to hide the simpler point they're trying to get across. If they say yes, I let it slide (their call). Otherwise, it's free game until things are clarified or we decide we need to cover other material to fit class time constraints, then we go a few rounds after class