" ... a large gap is still left with me when Ken is thru dumbing something down!"
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<br>"Dumbing something down?" Naaaaaaaah! Explaining. Clarifying. NOT for dumb guys.
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<br>Early in his career, one of the two best Bible teachers I've ever known (Bob Mumford -- Derek Prince is the other) developed his ability to make spiritual truths crystal clear by teaching retarded people.
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<br>One of my jobs at Saudi Arabian Airlines' Flight Crew Ground Training Center (Jeddah, 1984-1985) was editing the several editions of the Recurrent Training Bulletins for the Boeing 7xx series, the L-1011, and the Airbus -- for Saudi flight crews to study and understand -- including writing exam questions at the end of each article for Saudis to understand and answer for grading. Believe me, there's more to writing good test questions than you may first guess!
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<br>By comparison, you guys are a pleasure -- including y'all who think you're dumb.
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<br>The only real handicap I see here isn't innate inability at all -- but the insistence that anything new has to fit what you already "know" -- because a lot of what you "know" is not accurate. This is harder to deal with -- for you and for me -- than mere mental weakness.
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<br>The sincere desire to learn is your greatest asset -- whatever your IQ may be.
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<br>Years ago, a friend told me of an episode when he was working his way through the university as a janitor. Working nights, he picked-up a lot -- randomly -- by studying whatever had been left on the board in whatever class room he was cleaning.
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<br>While he was cleaning one class room one night, the professor came in to get or do something at his desk. As the prof was leaving, my friend asked him about something on the board that puzzled him. The prof waved him off.
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<br>"Oh, you can't understand that," he said (or something to that effect) and left. Then he came back.
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<br>"It just dawned on me that my job here is to make things like this clear enough that you CAN understand them." He proceeded to explain, and my friend did understand.
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<br>That prof was my kind of guy! And the kind of prof I always tried to be when I was teaching.
