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- Title: Bad/Good Teachers (FIRST PERSON) (Essay)
- Author : The Humanist
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Reference,Books,Religion & Spirituality,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 50 KB
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THE LAW OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES comes in many forms, which is the point of the so-called ancient Chinese curse: May you get what you wish for" A less dramatic way of expressing this sentiment is to acknowledge that we learn more from our failures than from our successes. The two teachers who had the most positive impact on my life were both bad teachers. One, in elementary school, was unquestionably bad; the other, in high school, was simply flawed. I am not an advocate for hiring bad teachers, but bad can sometimes be good. I took an instant dislike to a fourth grade teacher who was far too inflexible for me. In one assignment, she gave a list of ten words and asked us to write a sentence for each. I saw the ambiguity in her request, and thought I was being especially clever in coming up with one sentence that incorporated all ten words. I expect there were significant grammatical problems with my very long sentence, but that wasn't her objection. She punished me and made me write ten separate sentences using each of the words once. So I defiantly followed the letter, but not the spirit, of her assignment. For example, my sentence for the word "across" would be, "Across is a very nice word" I made sure not to give a clue as to whether I knew the meaning of the word. Again, I was punished.