IF YOU WANT TO:
Admitting when you don't know the answer to a student's question.
"Students don't expect you to know everything," notes a professor of architecture. "They admire your candor when you tell them you don't know, and they appreciate your interest when you find out the answer and tell them later."
"It's far worse to fake it than to say `I don't know that, but it's a good question and I'll try to find out the answer for you,'" says a professor of art history. Similarly, if you are not sure of the answer it is better to say, "I'm not sure. Let me think about it," than to just give the wrong answer and then try to correct it later.
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