As a teacher who believes as Mr. Tough does, that my job is to challenge students to identify weaknesses through rigorous self-examination, it’s always a little disheartening to read statements like the one above that elude to a kind of false equivalence. Is there really a large countervalent group of teachers who think and teach this way? Or, does the author need to manufacture such a group in order to make his primary examples appear more striking by comparison?