[ExI] quote of the day

[William Flynn Wallace]

I taught the senior level psych classes at a small liberal arts college in
Alabama- some 101s just like everyone else. What taxed me was that I had no
notes - I just winged it.  And of course some days were better, more
inspired, more creative, better new examples than others, but that's what
you get when you create something from scratch.  Funny thing:  when I
started, with 101, I was so afraid of having nothing to say - summer class
90 minutes long - I wrote out in longhand a word for word lecture I could
go to if I ran out of words.  Never had to use it.  I had found my niche.
 I once lectured to myself, out loud, in a car, for four hours on Freud.
Don't think I could do that now.  bill w

On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 7:41 PM Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 6:55 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> > Stephen King once taught high school.  Here is what he said about it:
> >
> > Teaching school is like having jumper cables hooked to your brain,
> > draining all the juice out of you."
> >
> > I found this to be true:  two hours of teaching left me drained.
> > Afterwards I never scheduled two in a row.  Mental energy is not
> > instantly replaced.  One reason I kept ranting to my students about
> > cramming.  I cannot imagine a person who has an 9 to 5 job getting
> > much accomplished for more than a couple of hours (and not much
> > at all after a two martini lunch)   bill w
>
> I reckon it depends on the person. I mean with regard to teaching.
> Were you teaching at the high school level or above or below?
>
> Regards,
>
> Dan
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