Education Official Says Bad Teachers Can Be Good For Students 279
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.'"
Re:WTH (Score:2, Funny)
Nah... she just had a bad teacher.
I picture a Monty Python skit (Score:5, Funny)
I'm okay with it... (Score:5, Funny)
...as long as the bad teacher isn't the metal/wood shop teacher or driving instructor.
Irony (Score:3, Funny)
She was being ironic.
Encouraging disrespect for authority figures... (Score:4, Funny)
I like it.
Re:I had a teacher like that... (Score:4, Funny)
Customer: I need to buy a new modem.
Me: All right. Who's your ISP?
Customer: (blank stare) Do I need to buy the monitor separately?
Me: (blank stare)
Customer: It keeps saying that I'm running out of memory.
Me: (light comes on) Let me show you some of the computers we have in stock.
Re:I take it (Score:5, Funny)
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