B ullying Teachers and Lifelong Learning

Kelly, this is thoughtful, thorough; it is hard to select key points for feedback.  However, two "jump out" at your humble servant here.  One, power, power relationships in education are important ethical tests.  Typically, the teacher traditionally has the power.  Today, students have power to bully teachers too, because of the overall collapse of discipline in too many schools.  For instance, this writer had a student accuse him of racism because he gave a student a low grade for shabby work.  The student got away with it, but ideally she should have faced criminal prosecution for public slander of this writer in the course.  You get the idea.  This does not mean teachers are dictators, but we have perhaps leaned over too far to pander to student power ideologies. Also, your point about intellectual inquiry is great.  A teacher wins if he or she can get students so "fired up" about the course that they want to continue to learn about it beyond, after the course!   This is really winning!  Dr. Rux