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	<title>Comments on: Can Teaching Make You a Better Designer?</title>
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		<title>By: Derek Pennycuff</title>
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		<dc:creator>Derek Pennycuff</dc:creator>
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		<description>The whole &quot;Those who can&#039;t do, teach&quot; mentality has always pissed me off.  That may be true for a few, but in any industry you&#039;ll find the occasional working dud.  Programmers who can&#039;t code a while loop, designers who don&#039;t know the difference between serif and sans-serif, cops who are a little too tazer happy, or whatever.   
 
I would love to teach.  In part because I think education in web design is important (if slow to adapt) and as a working professional a few months away from a masters degree I&#039;ve got a shot at breaking through the red tape.  But ultimately I want to teach for selfish reasons.  I think teaching makes you better in *any* subject.  Didn&#039;t Einstein say something along the lines of &quot;If you can&#039;t explain it simply, you don&#039;t understand it well enough&quot;?  That&#039;s the sort of thing teaching requires.  Anyone can wow a client with BS and buzzwords.  That won&#039;t fly in the classroom (and it probably won&#039;t fly with the same client twice if you don&#039;t have the chops to back it up, but for some people, that&#039;s the business model). 
 
Ultimately, teaching is the easiest way for me to scratch my own &quot;life long learning&quot; itch. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The whole &quot;Those who can&#039;t do, teach&quot; mentality has always pissed me off.  That may be true for a few, but in any industry you&#039;ll find the occasional working dud.  Programmers who can&#039;t code a while loop, designers who don&#039;t know the difference between serif and sans-serif, cops who are a little too tazer happy, or whatever.   </p>
<p>I would love to teach.  In part because I think education in web design is important (if slow to adapt) and as a working professional a few months away from a masters degree I&#039;ve got a shot at breaking through the red tape.  But ultimately I want to teach for selfish reasons.  I think teaching makes you better in *any* subject.  Didn&#039;t Einstein say something along the lines of &quot;If you can&#039;t explain it simply, you don&#039;t understand it well enough&quot;?  That&#039;s the sort of thing teaching requires.  Anyone can wow a client with BS and buzzwords.  That won&#039;t fly in the classroom (and it probably won&#039;t fly with the same client twice if you don&#039;t have the chops to back it up, but for some people, that&#039;s the business model). </p>
<p>Ultimately, teaching is the easiest way for me to scratch my own &quot;life long learning&quot; itch.</p>
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