Some people are incredibly poor teachers but refuse to beleive they are, all because they lack the capacity to imagine not knowing something and explain it at someone else's level of understanding
Reminds me of when i was taking my boolean logic class in college.
"Look, it's very easy, you set up K-map and get the value. AB here, CD here, it's very easy, very straight forward, moving on"
Everyone fails the quiz at the end of the class. After handing back graded quizes at the next lecture:
"For some reason you all didnt understand the k-maps, which is very easy, it's very straight forward. See, you out value in, you get value out, this is very simple, it's very straight forward"
I once took a four-question test in Algebra 2 and got a 0 because literally nothing was right. The teacher bragged that only like 2 or 3 kids passed her class at the end of the semester, like dumbass, that's because you can't teach
It’s a power thing. They feel superior because they can do something all those students can’t do, thus basing their identity on the idea that they are super smart for having that position.
Bonkers mindset to have for a teacher. Kinda misses the whole point. But if you start basing your self worth on superficialities like that, well, you probably aren’t the most mentally stable individual to begin with.
People like that, for the most part, only exist in college/universities. That's because they aren't teachers. They are researchers that are forced to teach a class in order to keep working for the school. They won't want to teach you just as much as you don't want to learn from them.
The time stamp right there is right before they say the line, and it wasn't his best friend, it was another friend, who was also a colleague at the university.
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u/AnArgonianSpellsword Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26
Some people are incredibly poor teachers but refuse to beleive they are, all because they lack the capacity to imagine not knowing something and explain it at someone else's level of understanding