[HPforGrownups] Learning and Teaching

[IreneMikhlin]

No: HPFGUIDX 135175

weildman wrote:

> 
> I think the most telling aspect of the HBP potions book is the revelation
> that it belonged to Snape.  This absolutely genius improvement in a 50 year
> old textbook is allowed to gather dust instead of improving the knowledge of
> students.  I believe Snape failed as a teacher when he failed to use his
> greater knowledge of the subject to improve the text for the course.  I
> don't know what his reasons for withholding this knowledge was, but in doing
> so he failed his students and the wizarding world.  The fact that he could
> have shared this knowledge and didn't is really telling about his character.

Why do you make the assumption that if Snape was teaching the Advanced 
Potions, he would not be using the improved instructions? In all the 
Potions lessons that we've seen in books 1-5, Snape does not tell them 
to follow the instructions from the book, he puts his own version on the 
blackboard. For all we know he was giving them HBP treatment all along.

Irene