My problem with teaching Harry Potter

[iris_ft]

No: HPFGUIDX 85028

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, kewiromeo at a... wrote:
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> 
> I heard that this teacher wasn't the best, but I didn't think of 
anything 
> about it. 

Now you're aware. An oriental proverb says that we never stumble 
twice over the same stone.
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> Aparently, we were discussing class differences shown in Harry 
Potter, and as 
> Harry is rich he can have Hedwig to deliver his mail, but Ron, 
whose family 
> is poor, must have scabbers deliver his mail. My teacher thinks 
the school is 
> like its own little society as the school has its own newspaper, 
the Daily 
> Prophet. and somehow or another, the entire Wizarding World is 
called Hogwarts.

Thanks God, she didn't taught you there were cheerleaders during the 
Quidditch games.
But maybe she was, in a very refined way, trying to check that you 
had read seriously your book. Maybe she was expecting some of you to 
rectify her wilful mistakes. You put down all her pedagogical 
stategy, you're not very cooperative IMVHO.
 
> This is a University level class. It stands like this. If we 
weren't going to 
> read Harry Potter I wouldnt have taken this class, but at the 
looks of it, I 
> shouldn't have taken it since the teacher only read the book for 
our class.
> 
> Do you guys think I should take it up with the department chair? 
How can I 
> listen to a teacher who is getting fundamental facts wrong? I 
would prefer she 
> not taught Harry Potter at all. Which of course meant that I 
wouldn't have 
> taken the class. I'm not being overzealous for complaining, but 
these are things 
> that my 6 year old neighbors know.
> 
> Tzvi of Brooklyn

 I remember the guy who was pertending to teach us Jorge Luis Borges 
and didn't understand his books (I had to read a comic by Hugo Pratt 
to notice how wonderful a writer Borges was). I remember too the 
other guy, who was trying to make us believe he knew how to analyse 
a play by Lope de Vega or Tirso de Molina (one year reading what 
another teacher had written, and trying to make us believe it was 
his own work). And there was another one, who was firmly believing 
that reciting what was in a book was enough to explain it(four 
classes telling us Madame Bovary by Flaubert)...
I'm glad to see that ignorance in University level is sometimes 
international, and I wish you good luck!

Amicalement,

Iris