The more I look at the hypocrisy of some of the teachers in my childhood the more outraged I become. Am I alone in this feeling?
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.My school teachers forbade the reading of the classical literature of Rome and Greece. Because, they said, it was wholly out of date, immoral, and of no worth in the modern Christian/socialist world. Since modern thinking had entirely superseded them. ( This was UK so socialist and Christian can go together. ) So of course being a child, and being told not to do something, I went out and did exactly the opposite, I read all of them I could get. I only half understood most of it then, and I do not now, agree with much of what I read. But they did tell me, that there were quite viable alternate views to the modern Christian dogma, and that the Christians did not have a monopoly on virtue and understanding.
( I also learned that my school teachers had not read everything they claimed to be experts on, and they told lies.)
Fernapple
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Jan 2, 2023
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No you are not alone. But you must remember that teachers are at the core of any culture, and that they are there, because they have proved to be the people who are most compliant with that cultures values, or lack of values. They are therefore also, any cultures greatest victims.
Fernapple
Level 9
Jan 2, 2023
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If anything, the disturbing teachers helped me become less like them.
Beowulfsfriend
Level 9
Jan 2, 2023
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There shouldn't be a "them" to begin with. I am glad you are not one of them.
@Betty I think I did ok. I keep a FB feed and it is mostly old students. Some give me more credit than I think I deserve, but I did what I thought best at all times. One old student is a professor in Ireland. As a sophomore, she told me I was going to Hell; her family was quite religious. Then, in her junior and senior years, she took all if my electives (creative writing classes; minority literature; great plays). I sometimes wonder where she stands religiously, but she never speaks of religion in anyway.
@Beowulfsfriend Nice to know you are one of the good ones. You had an impact on her and who knows she may be one of us now. That's a nice thought. 
Some people should never become "teachers/professors".
Betty
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Jan 2, 2023
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I worked with some of those people. It was sometimes hard when they were colleagues and one of my kids' instructors. I had an issue with the middle school music teacher (multiple parents did at the time). The boss actually brought it up once when he and the middle school head and I were meeting. I was allowing my 6th grade daughter to sit behind my desk during an upper school study hall that I had. The middle school head backed me up and nothing much got done and that lady "moved" on.
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