“I like the student having enough intelligence to question things, that is perhaps a lesson too few learn is that just because someone in authority says something so it is not necessarily so”
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They do the same in Canada. When I was in HS, the teachers there made sure to insult and denigrate every American achievement. I basically rebelled (just like an HS student) and questioned the existence of canada. The teachers hated me but graduated anyway with honors.