in reply to Re^3: Inheritance Issues
in thread Inheritance Issues

It's called "Explaining it to the teddy bear", after an apocryphal story about a university computer center that required students to explain the problem to a teddy bear before being allowed to talk to a student assistant. According to the story, over 2/3's of the students would sheepishly walk away after explaining the problem to the teddy bear, stopping in the middle, and going "Ohhhh....".

This was a boon for the student assistants whose Quake3 time went significantly up.

Being right, does not endow the right to be rude; politeness costs nothing.
Being unknowing, is not the same as being stupid.
Expressing a contrary opinion, whether to the individual or the group, is more often a sign of deeper thought than of cantankerous belligerence.
Do not mistake your goals as the only goals; your opinion as the only opinion; your confidence as correctness. Saying you know better is not the same as explaining you know better.

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