31 Jul
2012
31 Jul
'12
5:37 a.m.
On Jul 30, 2012, at 5:31 PM, Jonas Otter wrote:
On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 18:48:32 +0100 (BST), ard at
p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) wrote:
Here in the US, I've had both good and bad teachers of all types. The
worst example I can think of was my high school physics teacher, who
actually believed lightning is not electricity and tried to teach this
to the class (the reasoning being that it isn't forming a circuit
because the bolt only goes one way, which is also incorrect).
- Dave
Incidnetaslly, I never met a school maths or
physics teacher who realsied
that.
I must say I cannot understand how you succeeded in getting such
universally and consistently incompetent teachers. During my year in
the UK in the 5th form, *all* of my teachers were intelligent, clueful,
helpful and sensible. Admittedly, it was a private school (not one of
the expensive and fashionable ones) and may have been able to recruit
better teachers. I don't know if the state schools are generally bad
or not.