I read the comic because I despise Nate. The comic is very good in that it makes Nate such an unlikable character that I root against him and it’s funny when bad things happen to him.
This is exactly why Nate and Daphne shouldn’t break up. This is easily the most growth Nate has shown in any of his relationships. There’s no chance that Nate is this humble with any of his previous girlfriends; he would have seen them as the problem.
He broke up with Kelly for purely selfish and egotistical reasons. He wasn’t really ready for a relationship with Angie. Trudy was a self-centered jerk who deserved Nate dumping her. Daphne makes Nate better and makes Nate want to be better.
Of course I’m not joking. Mrs. Godfrey is a fair, reasonable teacher who is willing to listen to her students as long as they don’t interrupt her class, and she genuinely cares about her students learning something. That’s a great teacher; it’s really not hard at all to see why she’s been named Teacher of the Year twice.
The point still holds.