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Education Official Says Bad Teachers Can Be Good For Students
Zenna Atkins, the chairman of the Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted), has raised some eyebrows by saying that, "every school should have a useless teacher." She stresses that schools shouldn't seek out or tolerate bad teaching, but thinks bad teachers provide a valuable life-lesson. From the article: "... on Sunday Ms Atkins told the BBC that schools needed to reflect society, especially at primary level. 'In society there are people you don't like, there are people who are incompetent and there are often people above you in authority who you think are incompetent, and learning that ability to deal with that and, actually surviving that environment can be an advantage.'"
Nah... she just had a bad teacher.
I just got the image of a skit in my head where a student keeps complaining to his principal (or headmaster, I suppose) about increasingly awful things, only to be told that this will build character since "you encounter it in real life." The last visit will be the student coming to the principal saying "There is a crazy man with a gun entering the school," to which the principal responds "Well, there are crazy men with guns in real life too, so you'll just have to accept it."
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
...as long as the bad teacher isn't the metal/wood shop teacher or driving instructor.
She was being ironic.
I like it.
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Customer: (blank stare) Do I need to buy the monitor separately?
Me: (blank stare)
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Often, I find that one can evaluate the sense of a statement by taking it to its natural limit. So, if the occasional bad teacher can be good for students, then the occasional worst possible teacher should be great for the students, like a pedophile.
Limit[thisStupidStatement[x], x -> Infinity] = CatholicSchool
but have you considered the following argument: shut up.