An educator is disgusted with teaching methods that lead students to simply gain a credential rather than actually learn about the world. She decides to start a charter school that employs innovative teaching methods, doesn't give students grades, and encourages creative thinking over rote learning. How would Robert Merton's strain theory of deviance classify this educator?
A) as an innovator
B) as a ritualist
C) as a rebel
D) as a retreatist

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According to Robert Merton's strain theory of deviance, a rebel is someone who rejects both the traditional goals and the means of achieving them and instead seeks to replace them with new goals and means. This educator, by rejecting conventional teaching methods and the traditional grading system, and by aiming to establish a new type of educational environment, fits the definition of a rebel.

An Educator Is Disgusted with Teaching Methods That Lead Students