OT: Drill Sargeant (with a tiny bit of ontopic talk...)

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 94680

Potioncat (hiding behind vanishing cabinet):
> I think Snape is just as sincere in his desire to teach the 
> students as the Sorting Hat is to place them.  I don't know that he 
> likes them, or that he knows how to teach children.  I imagine this 
> is the approach he knows and the one that fits his personality.  I 
> imagine he thinks he's doing well at it, if the students are 
> passing the stardardized tests. I think he believes all the 
> positive things the other posts have said about drill sargeants.
> 
> But he isn't a trained drill sargeant.  He isn't working with adult 
> soldiers.  
> 
> I think he is trying in his own way to prepare the kids and he 
> can't even tell them what he is preparing them for.
 

Susan:
Forgive me if you don't agree, but I don't think any of this provides 
a decent excuse for Snape.  And if you're right, it would still fit 
in with my argument that he's potentially underminding the students' 
ability to learn, because you're saying he's using either ineffective 
teaching methods for this particular type of students or methods he 
hasn't mastered.  What you're suggesting--his not being trained or 
not knowing how to teach children properly--means that it's going to 
be hard for him to be an effective teacher and does *nothing* in my 
mind to remove him from blame.  It would, however, put **DD** more at 
fault for not having Snape address some of this.

Personally, I think you're closest to the mark when you say these 
methods suit his *personality*.  I don't think he's concerned in the 
slightest about whether the little urchins care for his methods.  ;-)

Siriusly Snapey Susan