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--------------E3FB1FCB7994534A544655D7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Throughout my years of diving, I have heard one quote that I would say sums up most everything everyone is ridiculing IANDT for... "There are no bad divers, only bad instructors" Hence Chances are a diver will practice the skills and safety procedures that they were taught. Now does this make them a bad diver, no... It therefore lies upon the instructor to teach their students the proper skills and safety procedures to their students... Now, the question is if the instructor had a bad instructor trainer, yet is teaching the same skills and stuff he/she learned from their instructor trainer, does this make them a bad instructor.... This is the problem that the diving community has. There are so many different teaching methodologies, who is to say who is right and wrong?? Sure we can all be critical of other methods, and say ours is the best, but what does that say to those who are trying to get into the tech community? Especially for those who really have no knowledge of what else is out there, this will all just confuse them.. What we should do is go out and prove that our methods work and are truly safer than others rather than criticize. Obviously IANTD isn't getting the point especially if they have instructors teaching different things.. Lay a standard... no wait, LAY LAW TOM!!!! If your standards are obviously being broken by your instructors, let alone your instructor trainers, lay a law down on how to teach if you wish to stop killing people.... --------------E3FB1FCB7994534A544655D7 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <HTML> Throughout my years of diving, I have heard one quote that I would say sums up most everything everyone is ridiculing IANDT for... <P>"There are no bad divers, only bad instructors" <P>Hence Chances are a diver will practice the skills and safety procedures that they were taught. Now does this make them a bad diver, no... It therefore lies upon the instructor to teach their students the proper skills and safety procedures to their students... Now, the question is if the instructor had a bad instructor trainer, yet is teaching the same skills and stuff he/she learned from their instructor trainer, does this make them a bad instructor.... This is the problem that the diving community has. There are so many different teaching methodologies, who is to say who is right and wrong?? Sure we can all be critical of other methods, and say ours is the best, but what does that say to those who are trying to get into the tech community? Especially for those who really have no knowledge of what else is out there, this will all just confuse them.. What we should do is go out and prove that our methods work and are truly safer than others rather than criticize. Obviously IANTD isn't getting the point especially if they have instructors teaching different things.. Lay a standard... no wait, <B><U>LAY LAW TOM!!!!</U></B> If your standards are obviously being broken by your instructors, let alone your instructor trainers, lay a law down on how to teach if you wish to stop killing people....</HTML> --------------E3FB1FCB7994534A544655D7-- -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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