{"id":1701,"date":"2022-12-31T04:44:51","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T04:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/12\/31\/lousy-teachers\/"},"modified":"2022-12-31T04:44:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T04:44:51","slug":"lousy-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/12\/31\/lousy-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"Lousy Teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">They unwittingly gave me the confidence that I could do what they do, and indeed do it better, but they also deprived me of the intellectual formation that I had to spend years developing on my own. They set me forward, and they set me back.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">To cheat students is bad enough; to corrupt them is far worse. The latter is happening now in classrooms at all levels throughout the land.&#0160; To speak of a decline in standards would be an understatement: <em>perversion of standards<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They unwittingly gave me the confidence that I could do what they do, and indeed do it better, but they also deprived me of the intellectual formation that I had to spend years developing on my own. They set me forward, and they set me back. To cheat students is bad enough; to corrupt them &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/12\/31\/lousy-teachers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lousy Teachers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,180,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-decline-of-the-west","category-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}