An Educator Is Disgusted with Teaching Methods That Lead Students

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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