[ExI] quote of the day

[John Grigg]

I think the challenge facing the task of teaching highschool is that you
often have an audience of young people who don't want to be there, and they
show it...

On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 2:56 AM 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
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