"the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil"

I was in an 8th grade science class and we had to do this big weather project that took no less than a week to do complete the entire assignment.  The teacher said that we had to present the entire project to the class in a 10 minute speech.  I lost 20% on the test because I made a note card to do my speech off of.  I guess we weren't allowed to use one and all of the information was supposed to be on a poster.  That was one of the hardest classes to recover from because everything after that wasn't any easier.  You could call it a lack of respect for the student of a lack of information given.  Either way it was a lose-lose situation.  The funny thing about the teacher is that she taught me how to run the hurdles very well.  I think that's the only reason she liked me at all.  It was a mind game that got old really quick.