Today I teach my last class. It will certainly be the last class I will teach here, and it may be the last class I will ever teach. My students frustrate me and push me and generally drive me mad, and part of me will be glad when I have graded my last expository (freshmen) writing paper.
But....
But...............
My posts are mostly long, rambling attempts to deal with thoughts about my life and my world. If you are interested in coming along on my stream of consciousness, maybe we will eventually get somewhere...but maybe not.
About Me
If the world is right, if this music of the cafes, these mass enjoyments of these Americanized men who are pleased with so little are right, then I am wrong, I am crazy. I am in truth the Steppenwolf!
-Hermann Hesse
-Hermann Hesse
3 comments:
Teaching is the thing I miss most. But with few exceptions (i.e. "incidents"), I always enjoyed working with students.
I'll still be working with them for a few days more. They have final papers due on Friday, and we have a written exam next Thursday. But I'll never stand at the front of a classroom again. At least, not in this way and not here. Despite the frequent pain in the ass of teaching, it's sad. I will miss it... and my students.
I miss teaching a lot some days. Although I'm still in education, there's such a disconnect between what I do and the people who are learning that I really miss it.
But then one of my friends who is teaching grouses about marking, and I remember that there are parts of teaching that I really don't miss!
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