Adrian Bejan | The pleasure of being corrected, from Thermodynamics
In this video, he repeatedly asks you to respond with comments, questions, reactions, clarifications, or more profound reflections that might benefit your experience as students at Duke. He says this is the beginning of his fifth decade of teaching at Duke, and that students once participated in the discussion but became quiet, not only because of the pandemic. He says the purpose is to bring out of each of you a source of ideas, your own ideas, and that if you keep quiet, you’re not helping yourselves. He advises keeping questioning, remaining firm in your opinion, and that he is not afraid of being corrected; in fact, he welcomes it.
He repeats his invitation for comments, questions, reactions, and points of clarification related to your experience as students at Duke. He says he would learn from something new or personal coming from you, because you’re not sheep and you’re individuals.
He states that this is the beginning of his fifth decade of teaching at Duke and that students were participating in the discussion in this enclosure. He reports that students became quiet and that the problem began before the pandemic.
He says that if you keep quiet, you’re not helping yourselves, and it doesn’t mean screaming, throwing rocks, or breaking windows. He says to say “I didn’t understand that, can you say it better,” or “would you please repeat it.”
He says if you ask a person who is spewing nonsense to repeat, an honest person will correct himself while repeating, because people make mistakes. He says you’re amazing, that you should keep questioning, and that he is not afraid of being corrected; in fact, he likes it.
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