Yet rather than empowering teachers to find what works best for their students, the policy imposes a flat, across-the-board rule.

然而，该政策并没有赋予教师权力去探索最适合他们学生的方法的能力，而是强加了一种单一的、一刀切的规则。

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Teachers and students alike have experienced the curious paradox that beginners, as a rule, tend to think too little about what they are doing because they think too much about what they are doing.

老师和学生都有过这样奇特的矛盾经历：一般来说，初学者往往对自己正在做的事情（的本质）想得太少，因为他们对自己正在做的事情（的细节）想得太多了。

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Rule explained C "Some teachers call the roll only a few times throughout the whole semester."

注解――谢牧阳抱怨道：“有些老师整个学期才点几次名。

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Keith was a loner who was often bullied and the older he got, the more difficult he found it to accept the teachers' authoritarian rule.

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In December, he called for the pay of teachers who worked to rule to be cut if they were in breach of contract.

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In 2011, city officials tried unsuccessfully to convince the state to change a "last-in-first-out" rule that dictates newer teachers must be laid off before those with more time on the job.

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