[HPforGrownups] Re: Reaction to Snape's death

[Janette]

No: HPFGUIDX 175715

Bruce Alan Wilson wrote:
>
> 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.


montims:
that last sentence makes a good point - how many sergeant majors are
lovable?  If you're teaching a dangerous subject, it is necessary to bully
if you're dealing with adolescents with many other things on their mind, to
get htem to concentrate...  The kids behave well for McGonagall because
she's scary, and badly for Binns and Trelawney...


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