• 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.caEnglish
            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.