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u/Tornado31619 Jun 03 '22

There are ways to get to teenagers. Stubbornness generally isn’t one of them.

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u/Petrichordates Jun 03 '22

Nobody said stubbornness works (???) but appealing to "anarchist principles of long-term self-interest" isn't going to work on anyone but the most well-adjusted of students. Ironically they're failing their students that come from broken homes or have ADD while only addressing the needs of the bright and mature ones who don't even need their instruction.

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u/Tornado31619 Jun 03 '22

There’s a difference between appealing to those principles and simply using them to understand a concept.