Roger said: I really, really, REALLY don't want to go over the education debate again and then he said: but, which means he is going to say something that has something to do with the education debate. He said: I found myself nodding in agreement with Red's last post. I had at least three teachers who shaped my career and, therefore, my life. Now you can't get clearer than that. 1. He's adding to the debate and 2. he's stating that these people shaped his career because they were teachers.
If you are locked up for 35 hours a week with teachers as the only great adults that you can meet, then of course if some great adult shapes your life (other than your parents), it's highly likely to be a teacher. That's just basic statistics.
That was my point: you don't need to attend school to meet these great people. So how stating that there are great people who are teachers and great people who are not is to "grind the current education system, schools and teachers into the dust" baffles me.
As for this "last word on this from me" and "give it a rest", the correct school parlance is "no returns" or "no backsies". If you no longer wish to indulge in a debate (and that's always fair enough, especially given that I often debate doggedly, sarcastically, even irreverently), simply not posting works a treat. But surely it's intellectually unsporting to state that you "really, really" no longer wish to indulge and still throw in an obvious rebuttal, or to add way more than your two-pennies worth without intending to hear the other side.
You appear to be morphing Roger and me into one entity, or confusing which of us said what. Either that, or you now feel you're under some sort of pincer attack. Neither is the truth. You also seem to be conveniently ignoring everything else you've ever posted about this, stretching back further than your last reply to Roger, which is certainly what my own response alluded to, and not simply that one post.
And before I'm picked up on my declaration that my last post would be my last word, that would be in relation to the home-schooling versus evil schools debate, and not, as is the case here, your dogged, sarcastic and irreverent debating style. To which I'm tempted to add 'deeply flawed', in light of the above. But I shall restrain myself, for fear of provoking further evidence of same.
But do feel free to continue arguing with yourself.
