• Rodeo@lemmy.caEnglish
      12·
      2 years ago

      If you can actually have a reasoned discussion about it, instead of simply getting angry at being questioned, then you are better than 90% of teachers.

      In my experience most teachers don’t like being questioned, which of course is directly antithetical to their supposed vocation.

        • Rodeo@lemmy.caEnglish
          63·
          2 years ago

          Sounds like you just don’t want your authority to be challenged.

          If you’re wrong and a student points that out, own it. Instead you expect them to question their own knowledge while submitting to your authority for confirmation or denial. But if the student already knows, they don’t need your confirmation. They need you to admit that you were incorrect, and move forward with the correct information. Otherwise you’re just demonstrating that you’re an authority that cannot be trusted to be fair.

          Authority that cannot be challenged is authority that cannot be respected. Authority must continually earn the respect of its constituents, or it will lose its power over them.

            • OutlierBlue@lemmy.cadeleted by creatorEnglish
              11·
              2 years ago

              If they “know” something because they read about it elsewhere, I should be treated as a equally valid source of information because I am.

              But you’ve just proven yourself to not be an equally valid source of information because you spread misinformation.

          • OutlierBlue@lemmy.cadeleted by creatorEnglish
            2·
            2 years ago

            solid, fluid, gaseous

            Solid, liquid, and gas. A fluid is something that flows. Both liquids and gasses are fluids.