Yeah, a lot of students assume a fundamentally antagonistic relationship with their teachers - that we’re looking for any hint of laxity, any excuse to lower their grades. Honestly, why? https://twitter.com/heathertday/status/1249503272639107076

My first stab is that they swim in a broader environment of capitalist labor-management, where managers' job is to extract every last drop of labor, and so they monitor assiduously, under the assumption that their workers will slouch, bc they have no personal stake in the work

And workers, meanwhile, know that the whole business model is to pay them as little as humanly possible. So students somehow absorb this, and assume my interest is to give them the lowest grades possible.

I certainly don't imagine Plato's Academy or Aristotle's Lyceum being such an environment, but then, the image of the strict old English schoolmaster, schoolmarm or tutor, does that predate these modern management structures?