Name: Anonymous 2011-03-16 4:36
There is a bad element in pedagogy, and that is the use of dishonest questions. For instance, if a student is given the problem to determine "which of these is greatest" (perhaps a set of expressions using logarithms) but the desired answer is that, in fact, there is no greatest value because they are equivalent, then the poser of the problem has committed a moral offense -- the poser has led the student to believe a falsehood: that there is one that is greatest, and so the poser has put the student on a fool's errand. Shameful. Shameful.