(September 10, 2019 at 9:31 pm)Belaqua Wrote:(September 10, 2019 at 9:04 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: So, what was his subject? Was he a war crimes apologist or was he merely incompetent?
Nothing to do with war crimes. He was supposedly doing research on an obscure Irish painter.
He was just incompetent about teaching, and puffed himself up by making his students look bad. He would tell them to do something, not guide them in doing it, and then take pleasure in telling them they'd failed. I suppose in his mind this was some kind of tough love or something.
I see it as a failure of character -- lack of empathy, misplaced confidence in his own wisdom.
Did you just describe every teacher of my university?
Anyway, it is unexpected how this turned into a discussion about Japan’s culture.
