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Poll: How do you view teachers by default (any kind: k12, college faculty, fitness coaches, music teachers...)... assume they’re good.
  • With sacred reverence
    19.9%
  • Narrow authority figures
    23.5%
  • Paid service professional
    49.5%
  • Servants
    7.1%
196 votesFinal results
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Are there really places in the world where teaching is held in such low esteem that respondents can imagine a 'good' teacher who is not worthy of personal respect? That seems to be one of the two axes you're selecting on.
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fwiw (as someone raised in the US) about one teacher in five during any of my education was contemptibly bad at their job (eg: the biology teacher who couldn't explain what a biosphere is and claimed turtles shed their shells); a similar number earned real, personal respect.
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