I'll be teaching a course in cash flow analysis presently, and I've been given the syllabus the last instructor used as a guide for my own.

It contains some bullet points.

Here's one:

"If you have a problem in following the material in class, or in the operation of your calculator, please do not ask your neighbor for help. Signal the instructor that you have a question or problem. Mini-conferences in class are extremely distracting to other students, are disquieting and result in a fulminating reaction from the instructor."

Honestly.

 

That's very true, but disrupting a lecture with stupid ass questions that could have easily been answered by paying attention is even MORE distracting to the entire class.

I hate students like that.

 

Teachers often say that there is no such thing as a stupid question.

They're wrong, as you point out.

 

There are no stupid questions... only stupid people.

 

"and result in a fulminating reaction from the instructor"

daily use of exaggeration keeps the doctor away.