I wonder why this is downvoted.<p>L Wittgenstein&#x27;s behaviour as a teacher was in parts terrible, and hitting a pupil so hard she collapses is hardly good pedagogy. Parents in the village wrote a letter to the school authorities to have Wittgenstein removed. Given that this happened at a time when corporeal punishment was widely accepted, he must have been extreme.<p>* * *<p>W has acquired acolytes that refuse to have anything negative published about the master. That also the reason why you rarely read about W&#x27;s sex life, which is ... interesting.