What's your point?

Poor teachers often are the types who resort to teaching because they couldn't hack it in the real world. You've offered nothing to counter that.

I never said teaching wasn't hard. I said a lot of bad teachers are also bad at the subject they teach.


Of course, you're welcome to be pointlessly combative about that statement for no apparent reason. No skin off my nose ;-)

You're the one that used the "real world" argument in a way that indicated you don't consider teachers as a part of the real world.

You're the one that used the "real world" argument in a way that indicated you don't consider teachers as a part of the real world. If you don't understand how words, written or spoken, can reveal an individual's persona, you might want to start looking into shoring that weakness up. I'm done with this other than to mark you can a rather terrible person in "the real world."

If you correct a college teacher they may even kick you out of class.

If you correct a college teacher they may even kick you out of class.

• Teachers who are morons in high school
• Teachers who you think are morons but are actually as smart or smarter than you with just a different opinion, and you can't see it; in high school
• Teachers in high school that is a pleasure to learn from
• Teachers who are morons in University
• Teachers who you think are morons but are actually as smart or smarter than you with just a different opinion, and you can't see it; in University
• Teachers in university that is a pleasure to learn from
• Bosses who are morons; they not only tell you what they need you to do, they tell how to do it, what language to use, impose horrible programming practices and how you should work. They'll pay you; you'll need the money; you'll stick with them until you can find something better or he goes out of business
• Bosses who you think are morons; they'll be actually very smart, probably smarter than you; they won't bother you every second on how you should work like the previous boss, but they'll impose you programming guidelines that are very good, but you're not comfortable following them since they don't suit your style
• Bosses who are a pleasure to work with.That's life; it sucks, it's wonderful, sometimes it's in the middle. I've been in all of them, and so should all.
  
  
  Try your best to see when _you_ are being the moron by not recognizing that someone is smarter than you with a different opinion; and learn how to turn that disagreement into harmony, making it a pleasant experience.
  
  And learn how to recognize morons so you stay away. Yeah, I know, you can't switch to another teacher. It's really frustrating. It sucks, I know. But so does having to work for a moron because you need the money. Some are luckier, but if the world can't be changed, learn to deal with it.
  
  It's already been mentioned, people who really care will learn by themselves. At some point anything a teacher says will seem limiting, because the subject is way broader than it seems.
  
  

  I know it's irksome to go off topic here, but ASCII is a 7-bit code that has defined values only in the range 1..127.
  
  The OP is technically correct in a prescriptive sense.
  
  "ASCII", sometimes incorrectly known as "ANSI" to those US residents with a DOS/Windows programming background, is commonly used to refer to any and all methods of representing textual information as a sequence of integral values in computer storage media. This includes not only ASCII proper, but any of the ISO, MAC, or CP localized 8-bit character sets, and often many of the multibyte or wide character sets that predate Unicode. ASCII is often also used interchangably with the UTF-8 Unicode representation (just as Microsoft's UNICODE is often confused with Unicode).[/quote]
  While what you've said is spot on, I fail to see how a Kanji can fit in 128 different values, regardless of the character set. The OP thread was "any character of any alphabet"