Comment by diffeomorphism

15 hours ago

Doesn't follow. Bell curve in, shifted bell curve out. Ideally this also tweaks the variance a bit.

In other words: Some students flourish despite their teachers, some flourish because of them.

And how would you call the students in the left tail of the Bell curve if not bad students?

  • Below average students and as long as the average is high enough they are still very competent.

    A bad teacher instead gives you a bimodal distribution and just doesn't bother teaching those students.