Adults think they deserve respect because they're older, when age does not lend you one more speck of respect. And now you can see they cannot accept being wrong.
Huge generalization, though. I like to assume people are stupid until proven otherwise. Sadly, most stupid young people grow up to become stupid old people.
Anywho, while this teacher might be representative of a decent percentage of adults, in no way does he represent us all.
Edit: http://youtu.be/Zql7f0Dp4GU This post reminds me of the parenting lessons I've learned from George Carlin, and how soon they will come into play.
My immediate reaction would be to withdraw Alex from that school AND sue the school for that. My old math teacher used to intentionally teach the wrong thing sometimes, but he would do it in the hopes that we'd spot it, and if we didn't he'd point it out.
Same.
That is a good trick. A few of my HS teachers did that, and if nothing else, it keeps the students on their toes instead of nodding off.
That said, I smell bullshit.
Right, because 1 teacher being dumb means every teacher at the school is also dumb and deserve to be punished accordingly, so yes lets sue the school that probably already has budget issues (not many public schools have spare cash for lawsuits) and make there already small budget even tinier. That will show them and help all the kids in the district!
Also, wouldn't be surprised if the kid was an asshole about how they corrected the teacher. All teachers make mistakes at some point, sometimes it goes unnoticed, sometimes a kid politely asks whether thats actually correct or not (And the teacher usually notices and thanks the student and corrects it) and sometimes theres a kid that just makes a huge deal about it and how could a teacher possibly get that wrong, they are supposed to be teaching us and don't even know the difference between a km and a mile, blah blah blah. Puts the teacher automatically into a defensive mode and they are going to want to back up their position even if they start to realize its completely wrong. It doesn't inherently make them a bad teacher.
I think these are all good points, but this guy went away and had a think about it, and then, on reflection, still wrote "would be better off simply accepting my teachings without resistance" - and that alone makes him dangerous, because what's the point of teaching anything if we don't teach kids how to think? It inherently makes him a bad teacher, for my money anyway.
*If* it's for real - check the Snopes, there are good questions being asked about whether smart quotes existed in 1994 and why the paper's crinkled but the text isn't distorted.
and we seem to forget that adults are just kids who got older. There seems to be this belief that adults are different *kinds* of people from children.. and we can't understand why we repeat our mistakes. It's weird. It's a weird thing we do.
Sounds like prison
Anywho, while this teacher might be representative of a decent percentage of adults, in no way does he represent us all.
Edit: http://youtu.be/Zql7f0Dp4GU This post reminds me of the parenting lessons I've learned from George Carlin, and how soon they will come into play.
That is a good trick. A few of my HS teachers did that, and if nothing else, it keeps the students on their toes instead of nodding off.
That said, I smell bullshit.
*If* it's for real - check the Snopes, there are good questions being asked about whether smart quotes existed in 1994 and why the paper's crinkled but the text isn't distorted.