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My cousin sent me this article to read. To summarize, it’s about a teacher who was illiterate up to the age of 48. He had graduated high school and college through cheating and working the system. He taught his students through oral and visual exercises and if anything needed to be read, he’d get other people to do it.

This level of deceit is quote despicable, in my opinion. How can you call yourself a teacher when you can barely do what your students are doing? I really don’t have many words for this kind of behavior other than words of disgust, really. I know that he shaped up and started taking literacy courses, but to fool people for that long? It really despises me.

What do you make of this? How would you feel if this was your teacher? I mean, you go to school with the assumption that your teachers know so much more about a topic than you do and they have done so by studying, by research, by gaining knowledge. To find out that this teacher had fooled everyone, which I suppose you can give him some credit for being able to do, it’s just really disturbing, you know?

What are your thoughts on this?

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