One of her most difficult students, a boy named Marcus who constantly tried to "beat the system" by challenging every test question, is now a federal judge. In a letter Mary kept for 25 years, Marcus wrote: "You tricked me into learning how to argue correctly. I spent four years trying to prove you wrong. You spent four years teaching me how to prove I was right. Thank you, Mrs. C."
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Mary’s tests were legendary for a single bizarre feature: sometimes, the correct answer choice was grammatically wrong. One of her most difficult students, a boy
"I'd write a multiple-choice question where three answers were mathematically correct, but one was phrased incorrectly. The lazy student would circle the right number. The tricky student—my student—would notice that the answer had to be expressed as a fraction, not a decimal, because that's what we practiced for two weeks." One of her most difficult students
She grins. "That's not being mean. That's teaching attention to detail. In real life, the right answer delivered wrong gets you fired."
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