Children respect teachers today not for their knowledge but for the marks they give. Teachers respect children today not for the intelligence they have but for the threat they pose. That is the state of education today!

Uma Shanker
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Children respect teachers today not for their knowledge but for the marks they give. Teachers respect children today not for the intelligence they have but for the threat they pose. That is the state of education today! In the past, the mark a teacher gave a student was based on their knowledge and intelligence. Today, however, a teacher’s mark is based on whether or not they have given a student a low grade.

This means that students are being held to a higher standard than teachers are. This creates a two-tiered system that allows for the lower class to be treated as less intelligent and less worthy than those who have been fortunate enough to be born into a higher class.

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