Michael Feldman wrote:
> Though as an educator, I persist in the notion that one _can_ teach
> the right stuff with the "wrong" language.
 

An exceptional student will become equally adept learning by
either approach, but the average student will tend to stay with
the styles and ideas that s/he first learned.

One of the first principals I learned in a "Trainers" training course was:

Students remember the first example presented to them, so NEVER present
a bad example first.  We always presented several "good" examples of the
idea being presented before we presented a bad example.

Phil
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