The teacher is an educated idiot. Look at her dissertation topic:
Cheryl Abbate is currently a doctoral student in the philosophy department at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is currently working on her dissertation titled, “Nonresponsible and Innocent Threats: the Search for Liability to Defensive Harm in Forced-Choice Situations” and plans to defend in May 2016.
Before attending Marquette University, Cheryl studied at Colorado State University, where she obtained her MA in philosophy. At CSU, Cheryl focused primarily on issues within applied ethics, specifically environmental ethics, feminist military ethics, and animal ethics. Bernard Rollin served as her primary thesis advisor, guiding Cheryl through her thesis work concerning the ethics of performing biomedical research on sentient beings.
Before attending CSU, Cheryl double majored in Philosophy and Business Management at the University of St Thomas in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
http://ceabbate.wordpress.com/
Cheryl’s research interests are first and foremost Animal Ethics, including how Animal Ethics intersects with Animal Theology, Animal Minds, and Animal Consciousness. Cheryl also pursues research in military ethics, bioethics, environmental ethics, ecofeminism, and feminist philosophy. Click here for a list of her publications.
LOL, she's writing a dissertation literally on how to justify lying in exactly the way she lied to this student.
Can't make this stuff up - a Ph.D. in how to lie.
Ecofeminism?
OK, wow. That sounds like an unholy marriage.