[ExI] quote of the day

[William Flynn Wallace]

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...
>

I can't argue with that - or not much.  The only high school I taught at
was a magnet school and my class was an elective.  Even worse than high
school is junior high - kids starting some strong hormones, getting acne,
and so on.  Teaching 7th grade is slugging it out in the pits.   bill w

>
> 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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