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Its best to suck up to the a$$hole until after you get the grade. Then later you can go back and set the record straight.
Heeeey...sounds just like "party" politics!
I start my children off in questioning what I say and this leads them very naturally to question what the teacher says. But I go farther and I am aware of what papers they bring home and use them as examples for debating.
From your own admissions it sounds like you teach acquiescence, not a questioning attitude. How can there be debate after acquiescence?
I state things outright and then tell my kids to find out if I'm right or not. Of course, I don't state things that they can't verify on their own to be accurate.
There is no "questioning of things" at my house, especially questioning what I say. If it isn't verifiable it isn't so.
If you teach your children to "question what you say" are you leading them or leaving them to list as they will?
You've got a strange way of teaching things, but it is your choice.

If you teach your children to "question what you say" are you leading them or leaving them to list as they will?

Here is an example. I told my oldest son I would pay him 100.00 to do the dishes.

He does the dishes and asks for his 100.00. I tell him I will pay him 50 years from now and that he never asked me when.

After awhile my children learn to get all the facts and not make assumptions.

As for letting them list as they will, we do have a democracy and allow our children to vote. Everyone gets one vote for each year they have lived.

You know my son went to Ithaca College (yes, in the city of evil! but only for one semester cause he hated it) and took a political science course taught by a very liberal prof. Well, my son has always been conservative, don't know why exactly, well, maybe I do since I voted for Goldwater with my very first vote, anyway he took the prof. to task on almost everything. Said at one point they were shouting at one another. He received an A. So maybe, just maybe, there are some liberals who listen and grade not according to their own world view but on merit. At least there was one that I know of. Just one.