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					Originally Posted by Alex  From my relatively brief forays into teaching it isn't smug self-satisfaction but rather consternation that either they don't know (which is bad in two ways) or they're too timid to participate (which is simply annoying). | 
	
 Oh, for some it's definitely the smug.
But yes, I was being mostly facetious, I know they just want to see if anyone's learning.  But just the same, I can't stand that pause.  I just want to answer to get it over with so we can move on.