Evidently not. No. The point of education for educators is to confirm one's professional biases. When necessary, it is perfectly acceptable to destroy counterexamples or shame them into conformity with the currently in vogue (or just fondly held) theory.

Cognitive dissonance is... icky. Ergo, whatever is causing this must be unnatural and blame needs to be assigned.


Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.