I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn't fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn't do well in school.
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane.
As somebody who visits countless schools, I see firsthand the dire situation our educational system faces.
We should be firing bad teachers.
My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is something I really know about. Even when I was a kid, it was a profession my father couldn't stay in, because he couldn't make enough money.
There are a couple of teachers I have had without whose influence I would not be as happy with who I am.
Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.
Mistakes are the best teachers. One does not learn from success. It is desirable to learn vicariously from other people's failures, but it gets much more firmly seared in when they are your own.
If you are a lousy teacher, you should be fired.
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