> Case in point: In the third Harry Potter book, we meet the witch who teaches Divination at Hogwarts. She's your typical 'psychic' who squints into a teacup or crystal ball and makes vague pronouncements that could mean anything. She hasn't a clue about real divination, wouldn't know a genuine vision if it walked up and bit her on the nose (and proves this last point not once but twice in the course of the book).
> Okay, it's kind of funny, but it also means that the cream of the next generation of wizardry is being taught totally bogus ideas about what divination is and how it works.
> And the headmaster knows this, and is allowing it to happen.

I haven't read the books yet myself (but I intend to!), but to me this could work as a commentary to how the educational system works, at least here in Norway. It's full of really bad teachers who never should have been teachers at all. They either have no clue of what they're teaching, or they have no clue of how to teach it. The headmasters knows this, and is allowing it to happen.

Trav"has had a number of those teachers"holt.