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Originally Posted by Dakota
Good Lord! Maybe we should broaden this thread turned diatribe into a discussion of whether the OP is a visual learner, auditory learner, or tactile learner and make sure we customize the response to each new guy based on learning style.  |
Just for future reference I am a visual learner with good autitory retention. Don't ask me to read to learn....I have read 4 books cover to cover...3 of them are rule books!!!
I see both sides of this pissing match that is going on here. But one old saying I saw at a place I used to work read:
"Tell me and I will forget
Show me and I will remember
Involve me and I will understand"
I understand the concept of being frustrated as a newbie. The book isn't the easiest to grasp sometimes...but just giving the answer falls into the first line of my quote, working through the rule book to teach a new umpire how to work out the answer on their own is how to get someone REALLY involved in umpiring and learning the rules the way they need to be known to become a good umpire. I do fully recongnize this has to be a balance between making the trail easy enough to follow that someone doesn't get frustrated and quit, but still hard enough that they learn from the experience. Let's all just try to meet in the middle a little bit