Snape's Self-Perception as Teacher

[kiricat4001]

No: HPFGUIDX 144841

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn at y...> wrote:
>
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Miles" <miles at m...> wrote:
> > 
> > Miles:
> > ... that Snape's main problem with teaching potions - besides
> > his very unpleasant character - is the subject. He loves it! 
> > And most certainly most students do not share his love for 
> > potionmaking. ... he doesn't want to see students mishandling
> > his beloved potions.

> bboyminn:
> 
> Between what you've said and what Sonja said in post# 144800 in 
this
> same thread, I think we may be onto something.
> 
> I can understand the frustration that many teachers have with their
> students. The students are so wrapped up in their teen-pop-culutre
> lives that they can't give a thought to the future. I imagine that
> every teacher at one time or another (most likely on a daily basis)
> has had the uncontrollable urge to take a student firmly by the
> collar, shake them vigorously, and scream in their face, "This is
> important! This is your future! THIS MATTERS!". 

<snip> 

> I'm also reminded of Shaun's Snape-like teachers. These were 
teacher
> who, much like Snape, MADE YOU take their class seriously. The more
> you resisted; the more they demanded. There was only excellence, 
and
> everything else was failure. So, in Snape's class, if you don't 
keep
> up or perform at his standard, he will drag you kicking and 
screaming
> into compliance. 


Marianne:

I've always felt that Snape had a deep apprciation and respect, if 
not love, for Potions. He may very well be one of those teachers who 
is ultimately unsatisfied with teaching. Not because of how his 
students do - Snape seems to be able to get most, if not all, of his 
students, where they need to be.  But, perhaps because none of them 
do this with any real passion for the subject or any deep 
appreciation of the beauty, as Snape sees it, of Potions.  

He almost makes me think of great athletes who fail as coaches. 
These people have all the gifts, but can't necessarily  make the 
less-gifted improve beyond a certain level. 

Marianne