Should a teacher who is critical of the education system he or she works within, encourage and foster that in the students?
It is inevitable that a teacher brings to the classroom his or her own biases and influence the students. Yet for some reasons, with the modern institutions and bureacracy, there seems to be this illusion that things can be standardised. And so teaching can somehow also be standardised – which belittles both the teachers and students alike.
And we think that through all that standardisation, the system can take responsibility of the students more than the teachers. So instead of driving accountability, there’s more interest in creating policies, putting rules and processes in place for just about everything.
The end loss to students probably is not quantifiable. The least we can do, maybe, is to ensure the students are aware of the limitations.