Blogger Tall, Dark, and Mysterious has far, far more patience than I. Her description of the hurdles required to get EI benefits in British Columbia is painful just to read, never mind actually deal with. And if the folks on the 1-800 "help" lines weren't clueless enough, TD&M has her students to remind her that while some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others merely gargle:
The student I’m tutoring, explaining why he didn’t do the last five questions of the homework, each of which defined a new term, and then required students to investigate how it applied to a few given functions: "These questions seem like they should have been in the lesson, not the homework. It seems like they’re trying to teach me something new."Posted by kswygert at August 16, 2005 08:38 PM