Wise Words of ... a Teacher. dhum dhum dhum....

I dont know what made me remember but I do.

A long time ago.....in a country far far away, there was a teacher akin to a Maoist version of Margaret Thatcher. Last I heard, she eliminated all her political opponents and is now in a position of considerable power. Woe to the people.

On the first day of class, she came in and said that it didn't matter if we were a bright class or a 'dim' class. She treated all students the same.

" The different outcomes of the soup depends on the different ingredients. The cook is always the same."

Now at first glance, this seems like a very honorable and dignified stance. Communist rule of thumb #1: ALL ARE EQUAL. Check.

But then imagine if you were the cook and you cooked all your ingredients with the same recipe. Don't you think you would get fired in no time? Or sent to the gulag if you were in Siberia? Or denounced as a Jewish saboteur in Nazi Germany? Or denounced as an economic saboteur and suffocated to death with a plastic bag by an 8 year old Ongka female youth in Khmer Rouge Cambodia?

Don't you think that a good cook would cook different ingredients with different recipes, so as to maximise the potential of each and every ingredient in the process of moulding exquisite cuisines?

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As the days went by, she also kept cautioning us against listening to myriad forms of rock music. Seeing the list of listener friendly rock music dwindle at such an alarming rate, I then proceeded to ask her: "Teacher, what type of rock music can we listen to?"

She replied: "None actually. All rock music is influenced by the devil".
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This post was not written to belittle, degrade, or make-fun of the said teacher, just to let her know that she is WRONG.

Ahhh......what a productive break, back to standard normal distribution and confidence intervals.