Teachers - even if they had Baudelaire in their Class they still wouldn't Know.

I once had a friend, let us call him 'Max'.
 'Max' was bright, very bright - (Exhibition to read English at Cambridge etc.) 


I would complain bitterly to him about the 'teachers' at my childrens' schools. How off the mark they were, unaware of how they would make reference to and encourage populist bilge: Harry Potter, X Factor, and tacitly encourage kids to buy all that Football 'kit' at exorbitant
prices where the profits go to robber barons who have ripped off
the Russian peasantry.  


I used to despair at the dearth of comments
on essays so lovingly written and never a demonstration of how the pupil could get better and I knew it was because they did not know themselves that is why they were teachers. 


Enter bright 'Max' to my rescue:


"My perception of the teachers I have met is that even if they had Baudelaire in their class room they still would not
'know'. 


For what teachers deem as 'gifted' or 'talented' and what is 'gifted' are two distinctly different things. What did Descartes say, 'I fail therefore I teach'. Well, not quite. And Shaw '...some do, some teach.' And then you had Nietzsche, 'We need to educate the educators.' 


Thanks 'Max'.