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mr_mitm 5 days ago

Wouldn't it then follow that all students of the same teachers end up with the same skill level in math? Not sure that's the case.

benreesman 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

Cantor gave his life to the Continuum Hypothesis, Hilbert gave much of his life to similar goals.

You’re making an argument somewhat along those lines, but given that I didn’t stipulate a convergence condition your conclusions can be dismissed by me.

If it were a valid argument then we’d need Gödel.

mr_mitm 5 days ago | parent [-]

Did you mean to reply to another post? I don't follow at all.

diffeomorphism 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Doesn't follow. Bell curve in, shifted bell curve out. Ideally this also tweaks the variance a bit.

In other words: Some students flourish despite their teachers, some flourish because of them.

mr_mitm 4 days ago | parent [-]

And how would you call the students in the left tail of the Bell curve if not bad students?

diffeomorphism 4 days ago | parent [-]

Below average students and as long as the average is high enough they are still very competent.

A bad teacher instead gives you a bimodal distribution and just doesn't bother teaching those students.