[HPforGrownups] Is education a right or a privilege in WW? Was: Re: More ...

[MadameSSnape at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 102670

In a message dated 6/23/2004 11:34:05 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
dumbledore11214 at yahoo.com writes:
As I mentioned earlier, I underwent four years of training to become 
a teacher, therefore I am somewhat familiar with the subject matter, 
even if I did not become a teacher in the end.

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Sherrie here:

Training which doesn't happen in the WW.  Very good training, I'm certain - 
you sound like the sort of teacher I'd have liked a child of mine to have - but 
it's training in modern theories of education.  IMHO, this isn't really 
applicable to the WW or Hogwarts - which appears to operate along a much more 
Victorian educational model - when school was taught with a book in one hand and a 
rod in the other.

Another thing about Snape - knowing he's now about 36 or 37 years old, and 
that he's been teaching for 14 years, he was 22 or 23 when he started - not much 
older than some of his students.  (In fact, some of his sixth and seventh 
years probably knew him AS a student.)   IMHO, he would have felt the need then 
to assert the authority of his new osition - and what appears to be Snape's 
model of an authority figure?  Dad, or the Dark Lord...  That harshness just 
never went away.

Just a thought.

Sherrie
"Unless history lives in our present, it has no future." 
PRESERVE OUR CIVIL WAR BATTLEFIELDS!


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