The Engineer Walker and his students raised an uproar as they scrambled towards the toppled marionette in a frenzy. As the marionette was the brainchild of their collective ingenuity, an integration of Earth's technology into Isythre's, and the representation of a certain video game they were currently transfixed at, it was understandable that the Engineer Walker and his students panicked at the sudden turn of events.
"I need an explanation! How in the world did something that walks on four damn legs even fall over?!" The furious Engineer Walker, who was running the fastest, yelled.
"Huff… Huff… Well, seriously, if… it's certainly not because you fumbled around with its control…" A panting student offered as he struggled to catch up with the professor. "Maybe something happened to its vertical stabilizer or the hydraulic drive system."
[1] And what do you think, True Believers? Which teacher do you think works best for you? What sort would YOU be, if you were a teacher? Well, I’ve given lessons to whippersnappers in elementary school before, and I was largely the Engineer type… minus the lowbrow indulgence, of course. I replaced them with inculcations on the fascination for the wonders of ghosts and spirits and urban legends and skepticism and science!
Gotta’ admit, sometimes one or two students may think your friendship enables them to act as a piece of s*** to you, but I see that as less of a problem with me not possessing enough authority, and more of them not knowing how to respect others, regardless of superiors, inferiors, or peers. If thinking I’m their friend alone made them think that I could be bullied or disregarded or slighted, then I would reasonably suspect that they hold more or less the same warped idea about their ACTUAL friends or inferiors—which is something a teacher should correct, in the hopes that they grow to become decent human beings who give the right amount of respect to everyone regardless of their stations, safe from both blind obedience and self-aggrandizement. But what do you think?