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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi
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To: Gauguin who wrote (29848)6/24/1999 7:22:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (1) of 71178
 
>Teaching and students need you. Really! I know some good teachers. Believe me.
They're basically, the best, informed illustrators. As they should be. Renaissance people.
People with interests and sense. And you are too.<

I'll level with you, Gaugs.
Teaching is damned hard work. And the pay (even at the junior college level) is seriously lacking. University level is not for me - I wouldn't survive six months in such a politicized atmosphere. I saw it as a grad student and learned right then&there that It Wasn't For Me.

As an industrial researcher I get to hold a job and not really work that hard. A lot of what I do is play - guided play that sometimes leads to real results. A teacher gets awful little time to just slack off and dedicate an hour here and there to "nothing but Net". The crushing load of the paperwork - preparing class notes, making up tests, all that - really frightens me.

In a public school - I fear that I would be denied two very important things.
1) The right to fail underperformers.
2) The comfy knowledge that discipline was not my problem. If a student acts up, there would be a machinery in place for dealing with or removing the distraction to the dead serious business of learning something. I don't have the magic ability to generate a respect that transcends the contemporary burden of unchecked apathy and nihilism that many students carry with them.
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