Private Message to Professor Desai

[alt_linus]

Professor, I wish to state quite clearly that I in no way have any quibble with the lesson you have assigned to us -- or, indeed with any of the lessons you have given us thus far! Quite exhilarating and educational, to be sure! What I wish a bit of guidance on, however, is whether I would be in any way interfering with your pedagogy if I were to tutor one or two of my fellow students who might be a bit, ah, remiss about fully absorbing all information given in and connected with the assignment. It occurs to me that perhaps this was indeed part of your intent, and that perhaps you wish us to learn that we must all teach each other to strive for the utmost excellence and present our professors with the very best that we can be, as to do otherwise is in a very real sense to squander the resources of the Protectorate.

On the other hand, I cannot deny that there is a certain logic to the playing out of nature, red in tooth and claw, or, in this case, blue in scale et cetera, as it does serve to make the point in ways no mere exhortations can achieve.

Please advise -- and again, thank you for doing us the honour of providing magnificently challenging instruction!

Comments

[alt_savitha]

My dear, I am not in the least surprised that you have done the reading quite thoroughly.

And while I hate to discourage you from sharing your talents and gifts with your fellow students, I did in fact have some very specific pedagogical goals in mind when I set this assignment.

It is, in fact, advisable for anyone learning a new spell -- especially an advanced and difficult one -- to read thoroughly whatever information they have to hand. As Wednesday's lesson made it clear, not all of your peers have absorbed the importance of this practise yet. I do indeed hope that tomorrow's lesson makes an impression on them.

[alt_savitha]

All that said: you should do as your conscience dictates, of course.