This is fascinating, it's interesting how the author balances respect for the students, while challenging them. I would recommend anyone who enjoyed the articl

This is fascinating, it's interesting how the author balances respect for the students, while challenging them. I would recommend anyone who enjoyed the article read the prior two posts linked at the top, they provide some nice additional context.[0][1] That being said, while I do believe this kind of teaching could be useful, it seems that the teacher who attempts this is going to have to be very skilled, there appears to be a fair bit of lesson planning involved and knowing how to maintain the balance so that students get the sense of their teacher's respect for their capability against the disappointment that they didn't perform better. > It’s crucial, therefore, to hold the students themselves as inviolate — dignified by default, and capable by assumption. > The antagonistic teacher, on the other hand, takes it as a given that most students will put forth the bare minimum of effort, and structures his class accordingly. He makes clear exactly what is necessary to achieve a B or a C (rather than presenting these as inferior shadow derivations of A-level work), and then ends his spiel, ideally leaving the students with the vague sense that they’ve just been insulted. It would be very easy for a student to get the impression that the teacher "has it out for them". The other thing I'm wondering about is how much is this a useful teaching approach vs the existing let's call it "kindly mentor" approach. There are some proportion of students that will react well to this model vs the existing one and I'd be really interested to know what the broad proportions of that would be. At the very least this approach seems to penalise students with issues such as learning disabilities, though perhaps with some adjustments made towards students specific needs a more antagonistic style might be a refreshing change to their instruction instead of feeling like they're being introduced to a teacher who just has it in for them. - [0]: https://medium.com/@ThingMaker/educ-101-axioms-f1cba0c85794 https://medium.com/@ThingMaker/educ-101-axioms-f1cba0c85794 - [1]: https://medium.com/@ThingMaker/educ-102-economics-dcbe70ca5ae6 https://medium.com/@ThingMaker/educ-102-economics-dcbe70ca5a...