On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:08:38 -0700 (PDT), xyzzy
wrote:

Humor in teaching works when it's situational, responding to a
specific situation. Best done in an actual teaching situation. In
written materials it's tedious. Quite frankly whenever I read
Machado, I get the impression he has a jokes per paragraph quota that
he's gonna fill whether he has material or not.

My feeling also.

That said, I did buy and read his (first?) instructional manual, and I
was less likely to fall asleep over it than with Gleim etc.

It's more the monthly column in AOPA Pilot that wearies me.


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