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At 4:53 AM 9/17/95, Jason Rogers wrote: >Surely only the most experienced instructors should be teaching beginners. > >What do the course directors, instructors and beginners out there think? I do not agree for the following reasons. There are two ways to view "most experienced instructors". If we take experience related to diving, assuming that they are an adequate instructor, then there may well be a waste of talent. A grammar school student will not learn arithmetic from a "rocket scientist" any better than he will learn it from someone who has only a reasonable foundation in math. The "extra knowledge" is beyond the grasp of the student. If we take experience related to teaching, then there is the fundamental "chicken and egg" problem. There is not anywhere near enough demand for education beyond the basics to give a new instructor the opportunity to learn to teach well enough to become "most experienced". The turnover in the industry is astounding. I am sure that a lot of it is based on the lack of value that most people place on the training. The "best" divers in Scarpa Flow make poor Akamal divers, and vis-versa. So which one is the "correct" one to be teaching beginners. If you try to claim, the "best" in the local environment, you totally ignore the mobility of divers. ---- Richard Wackerbarth rkw@da*.ne*
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