Reaction to Snape's death

[Bruce Alan Wilson]

No: HPFGUIDX 175710

"Jack-A-Roe:
He was a poor excuse for a teacher. Insults and bullying are not 
the way to get children to learn. Intimidating Nevelle, reading 
the paper out load in class in GoF, Breaking Harry's potion in 
OotP, etc. The man should not have been anywhere near students."


The proof of the pudding is in the eating. Snape's students learn. 
Even Harry manages to get an E.

I love my aunt to death, but before she retired she was a HS 
English teacher, and once I heard her say that her goal was 
for her students to like her and have fun in her class, and 
if they learned anything it was a bonus. Between a nice, sweet
-tempered teacher who didn't care about the students mastering 
the material and a harsh mean teacher who sees to it that the 
students master the material, in spite of themselves if necessary, 
I'd take the latter. Particularly in a subject where not getting 
things right could get you, or someone else, killed.

Bruce Alan Wilson

"The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other 
forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle 
remains pure in heart."--Iris Murdoch