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by tux3 8 days ago
What kind of fresh hell does the sentence "undercut the professor" come from?

Teaching isn't a race to the bottom. You don't undercut teaching by giving more lessons, just like you don't slight the hospital by performing CPR.

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We are not really talking about teaching here.
We sure wouldn't be, if we picked better metaphors.
No, we’re talking about an intimate set of tensors, not a human being.

A tree falling and killing someone isn’t tried for manslaughter.

So I don’t care about a hypothetical teacher.