Editorial | Learning Microscopy Shouldn’t Be a Drag
THE MICROSCOPE
2014, Volume 62:4, p. ii
DOI
https://doi.org/10.59082/MFGG4230
AUTHOR
Gary J. Laughlin
EXCERPT
If the key to playing good music is steady practice, then the key to good microscopy has to be ongoing education. I hesitate in this context to use the word “training” to describe how we teach and learn. As I have been reminded by one of our columnists, this word originates from the Latin trahere, meaning to “pull, draw” and the Anglo-French trainer, “to draw, drag.” Although educators pride themselves in being good teachers and boast of students who are good learners,we don’t usually prefer to have to pull or drag our students,or be pulled or dragged by our teachers, but that’s how it can feel sometimes.