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Originally Posted by hullexile  He retired in the late 1980s so this was when the parents were educated. I am really not sure if I believe this story. (He managed to get written scripts passed to him for every exam in his life and was never spotted? He was never required to read the timetable to know which classroom he was meant to be in? He was never required to write a letter to a parent? The students never gave him notes to read? His teaching assistants never noticed that he did not read anything nor wrote anything on the board? He never had to teach on his own?). |
My instant reaction? Don't believe his version of the story either.
Would you take this guy at his word if he's already conned and cheated along the way most of his (earlier) life? Now, apparently, he wants others to somehow "learn" from his hidden experience of illiteracy, blamed totally on poor schooling? Teachers, supposedly role-models, aren't saints, that is for sure, BUT who'd want their kids around an "educator" like him?!
Well, he's certainly inventive and lucky, clearly knowing how to publicise himself with eye-catching headlines and talks (I suspect, mainly to sell books & stuff on his self-named site).
This unusual tale brings to mind that famous Dylan line (forgive my off-the-cuff quote):
"You can fool some of the people SOME of the time, but you can't fool all of the people ALL of the time..."
