Originally posted by Digitalis Something is fundamentally wrong when a teacher's opinions reign supreme over their students.Teachers should be pleased their students have the intellectual curiosity to seek the truth for themselves...but that was in 1956.
Whilst I generally agree with your initial comment, I would not be so "heavy" on that guy - he was a well-educated and decent person, but just didn't know something that had only recently been discovered (and shown on one of the very earliest wildlfe shows on British TV - and those were the days when few British people actually did have TV receivers!),