There’s often an air in education surrounding this stuff of “students are so stupid,” a sense that students are the inherently •adversaries• of teachers.
This bothers me immensely. If something •consistently• does not work for a large subset of students, even a majority, but I insist on continuing to do it, then who’s at fault: the students for not being •my• imaginary version of themselves, or me for failing to heed evidence?