Just Back Off and Let Us Teach by Caroline Alexander Lewis

Similar to college/high school today, no? Dinin is a warrior teacher at the school of martial arts who, along with other teachers, attempts to teach students mindless racism, classism, violence, and other morally reprehensible things. Dinin Do'Urden is responsible for the attempted brainwashing of his brother/student Drizzt. Dolores Umbridge is a bad teacher because she is trying to propagandize her students into suppressing the truth and she gives unfair punishments.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenixby J.K.

M’Choakumchild, who stuffs facts into students until they choke. Thomas Gradgrind, sadistic utilitarian who eschews the humane arts in favor of training students as if they were part of an assembly line. Corse, the new teacher, disciplines them with a fifteen-foot whip that draws blood and leaves their clothes in tatters. A school teacher unable to maintain order lets the “boys from Hardscrabble Hill” beat him so badly he later dies. Miss Brownell, a merciless disciplinarian, ridicules Emily for spelling mistakes and plays favorites with the class. Rousseau also trains Emile’s wife, Sophie, to be “passive and weak” and to please her husband. Rousseau emphasizes experience, reason, and career, only imparting emotion, “religion,” and sentiment when Emile is a teenager. Rousseau imagines raising Emile, whom he treats as a perfect tabula rasa needing only protection from society’s corrupting influence.

Emile: Or On Educationby Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Miss Day the governess treats Elsie unfairly, doesn’t let her go the fair, and boxes her on the ear. If that's not a bad teacher, what is? The book also has a sharp commentary on social politics. M rigs a school election against a student just because he doesn't like her.

Creakle, the headmaster of Salem House, “had a delight in cutting at the boys, which was like the satisfaction of a craving appetite.” Pangloss has become a byword for foolish counsel and risible rationalization. None of the teachers and principals can be bothered to learn about young Frank in this book, to understand him, to guide him, or even care about him as a human being. Be Frank With Meby Julia Claiborne Johnson.Phillips, who fails to enforce order or care for his class because he aims only at courting one of his pupils, misspells Anne’s name (omitting the “e”) and singles her out for punishment when she and several others appear late for class.

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Just Back Off and Let Us Teach by Caroline Alexander Lewis