Good teaching

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Six. This is very important -- good teaching is about humor. It's about being self-deprecating and not taking yourself too seriously. It's often about making innocuous jokes, mostly at your own expense, so that the ice breaks and students learn in a more relaxed atmosphere where you, like them, are human with your own share of faults and of grading, designing or redesigning courses, and preparing materials to still further enhance instruction.
(To be continued)