Professor Binns

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No: HPFGUIDX 80019

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "greatelderone" 
<greatelderone at y...> wrote:
> Out of curiosity, but does anyone know why Dumbledore keeps 
Professor 
> Binns around? 

My answer:
I think that history is a subject taught by lecture (IMO the worst way 
to teach). I think if polled most members would say that history was 
the class they liked the least in school. JKR has used teacher 
stereotypes in her books. I have had teachers much like Binns. I am 
working on a MA degree. I had a class that was much like the History 
of Magic. The teacher would talk and talk and talk. I had three 
friends in the class we would take turns taking notes. The person 
taking notes would photocopy them for the rest of us. Then those of us 
who were not taking notes would finish homework for other classes. So 
I could relate to the students in Binns classes. I agree that this is 
sad. History of Magic is an important class. You can not know what is 
going on in the world without having knowledge of the past. So I think 
Binns is kept to show the steotypical boring teacher.

Myrth