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I came across this sentence:

さまざまな授業内容で生徒の不能性を引き出します。

I understand it's supposed to mean something along the lines of "A variety of
teaching contents brings out the potential of the students".

But I do not see why

生徒の不能性

should mean "the potential of the students". As 不能性 means "impossibility,
incompetence", why doesn't it translate as the "incompetence of the students"?

Thanks in advance :)
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Meaning of 生徒の不能性 in the following context
First of all, although the term 不能性 is comprehensible to me, and I believe to
all native speakers, it is not an established term, and is not found in the
dictionary. One would still understand this term though, as "Impossibility" or
"Inability", made up of 不能 + 性 .

Back to your sentence, you are right about this sentence not making sense, as
obviously we cannot `draw out the student's incompetence with all sorts of
lecture contents`. As aguijonazo has suggested in a comment, there is strong
possibility that this is a type for 可能性, a common word meaning "possibility"
or "potential".

> さまざまな授業内容で生徒の **可能性** を引き出します。  
>  Draw out the **potentials** of students with various lecture contents.

As a side note, the proper antonym for `可能性` is `不可能性`, rather than `不能性`. The
latter is still understandable, but not established/standard. Just like the
proper noun form of `impossible` is `impossibility`, yet if I say `impossible-
ness` you'd still understand me.
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