Charts & Graphs
Choose Your Educator
An alignment chart of teachers from classic children’s literature.
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 Neutral |
 Chaotic |
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 Good |
LAWFUL GOOD The Giver From Lois Lowry’s The Giver (1993) Burdened by the secrets of his seemingly utopian society, the elderly memory keeper known as the Giver helps his trainee, Jonas, escape to a freer future, but stays behind himself. |
NEUTRAL GOOD Miss Edmunds From Katherine Paterson’s Bridge to Terabithia (1977) Learning that an impromptu trip to the National Gallery is the first time her student Jess has ever been to a museum, art teacher Miss Edmunds is overcome. “My life has been worthwhile after all,” she says. |
CHAOTIC GOOD Ms. Frizzle From Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen’s Magic School Bus series (1985–2010) Ms. Frizzle teaches her students about the world with the help of a supernatural school bus. “Take chances,” she advises, “make mistakes, and get messy!” |
 Neutral |
LAWFUL NEUTRAL Mr. Ratburn From Marc Brown’s Arthur series (1976–2011) Equal parts loved and feared by his students, Mr. Ratburn is known for giving the hardest tests but also for encouraging children. |
TRUE NEUTRAL Miss Wormwood From Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes (1985–95) “Miss Wormwood believes in the value of education,” comic creator Watterson has said of hyperactive Calvin’s first-grade teacher. “Needless to say she’s an unhappy person.” |
CHAOTIC NEUTRAL Haymitch Abernathy From Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games series (2008–10) “Stay alive” is gruff coach Haymitch’s only advice to protégés Katniss and Peeta as they prepare to fight to the death on live television. |
 Evil |
LAWFUL EVIL Dolores Umbridge From J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2003) A career bureaucrat turned Hogwarts professor, Umbridge quashes dissent by forcing students to write lines with a magic quill that uses blood instead of ink. |
NEUTRAL EVIL Miss Trunchbull From Roald Dahl’s Matilda (1988) “Nauseating little warts,” Miss Trunchbull, the headmistress of Crunchem Hall, says as first grader Matilda and her classmates arrive at school, unaware that they will soon be sadistically punished for infractions such as wearing pigtails. |
CHAOTIC EVIL Mrs. Gorf From Louis Sachar’s Sideways Stories from Wayside School (1978) “If you children are bad,” Mrs. Gorf tells her students, “I’ll wiggle my ears, stick out my tongue, and turn you into apples!” By the end of the week, she has. |
