@Ponylooker
 
Here’s the relevant panel:  

 
I’d argue that the language on the board in the second panel is not begging the question “[Now that Discord’s free, is he] really a friend?”, but more like “[Counter to all previous data, is Discord not our enemy but] really a friend?” Also, given the bored state of the students, this wouldn’t be a very stimulating lecture, and one would take her as senile and crazy. “Old fashioned” is less harsh way of calling out senility.
 
Also, even she never witnessed Discord, she could be extrapolating from the known data (whatever Cele and Luna wrote about him) to say he might have been seen as evil but really could be an ally if used right.
 
It’s not that it couldn’t be taken the other way, that this is post- Keep Calm. Just that the feel I get is that this is before the finale of S1 (no Luna around, and thus Cele is more brooding due to loneliness); it could be before even Twilight was at the school, as I have nothing else there to place the age unless you assume the off-canon that Firefly is RBD’s mother. Without that, this probably could have taken place easily in the century or two before the show’s present. (the clue there being going from moveable type machines to modern printing press in the flashback to Inkwell).

@Masem  
She wasn’t. The comic takes place in the present, after Discord’s reformation. She was presenting an “old-fashioned” idea that Discord was in fact still a threat. She’s paranoid and thinks everything’s a threat, remember? And there was no time in the past, or at least that part of the past that Professor Inkwell would have experienced, when Discord would have been considered a friend, so that idea could not have been “old-fashioned”.

@Bryon  
Considering that Inkwell was tossing out the “wacky” theory that Discord was friendly, that should prove interesting. :)

@Muffinshire  
That would be awesome, Muffinshire! :) I’d love to see how Twi handles her unique teaching methods and her general behavior :D

@Ponylooker  
That’s a good solution.

I’m changing all images with her in it to “professor inkwell” because of actual inkwell objects and OCs with the same name, not to mention the confusion with Raven. And yeah, they never say it, but “Prof.” is on her door plaque.

@Masem  
That was with Raven’s name in part 14 (>>426896), where the preview pages for the Celestia micro comic (where she was first named in official media) came out mere hours before I finished. Hooray for digital indeed! I didn’t mention Inkwell until part 15 (>>445849), but I’d already decided to include her as a minor character by then. I love dropping in little details to link the story to canon elements!

@Bryon  
@Muffinshire
 
As I recall, Muffinshire made a quick change on the one chapter of this comic that came out the same week as the Cele micro to include the name in passing. (One of the benefits of working digitally :)

@Bryon  
Only in a couple of panels in this upcoming part, but yes. I name-dropped her a couple of parts back, and I knew I had to have her actually appear at some point.

So Inkwell’s gonna appear in the next chapter of Twilight’s First Day? Awesome ^_