Today is...
Today is the first day in the rest of my life.... But then every day is the first day in the rest of my life at least upon awakening. However, the expression is meant to convey the idea that whatever has happened in the past, (especially bad things) today is a new beginning in which you (or I as the case may be) can begin again to do the things I want to do with a positive spin rather than the negative which may have chased me.
Now, tonight is the next class in the course "Sociology of Adult Education". Isn't that impressive. Hey, when I went to school, the kids did what they were told and the teachers did what they wanted to the kids and they called it education no matter what method...(e.g. beat them into submission), the teacher (frustrated nun) used.
Now, I should not be picking on Nuns because some of them were wonderful teachers. (I am struggling to remember which taught with skill and tact rather than the inch thick ruler) even if my memory has failed because of age.
I however am a WONDERFUL teacher because I make my students or pupils or class or whatever, WONDER what the old guy is up to when he says that or this.
I want every teaching experience to be a postive one for my "students"...the young people who are forced by circumstance to be in the class in order to get the piece of paper which says that they can do what they already know they can do because they are doing it. Such is the world of academe'.
Problem is that Sociology of Education is so broad that it can't be condensed into a "course". Rather it is "life in the classroom" no matter where that may be...from primary to post doctoral studies. So teaching it is in a sense trying to condense life in the class room into a course that has definable parameters. Sure,,, use a big amorprous word when limits would be sufficient. Nonetheless, (whateverthatmeans) tonight, or this evening, or later today, or however you wish to describe the time between 6 and 9, 16 plus people will be forced to endure what I want to throw their way because I am the teacher, instructor, professor, who is in charge because the U pays me to be there and do what I am doing. And they or it dosen't (or don't if you prefer they) have a clue what I am doing in the classroom ...only that I am "qualified" to do whatever it is that I am doing.
What I do is have fun with my friends who have paid money to be there. Kind of like a live play except I involve the audience or more correctly I let the audience construct the play.
Genug or if I were an ancient Greek I would say...take this message from marathon to Athens...Thus the Marathon???
Now, tonight is the next class in the course "Sociology of Adult Education". Isn't that impressive. Hey, when I went to school, the kids did what they were told and the teachers did what they wanted to the kids and they called it education no matter what method...(e.g. beat them into submission), the teacher (frustrated nun) used.
Now, I should not be picking on Nuns because some of them were wonderful teachers. (I am struggling to remember which taught with skill and tact rather than the inch thick ruler) even if my memory has failed because of age.
I however am a WONDERFUL teacher because I make my students or pupils or class or whatever, WONDER what the old guy is up to when he says that or this.
I want every teaching experience to be a postive one for my "students"...the young people who are forced by circumstance to be in the class in order to get the piece of paper which says that they can do what they already know they can do because they are doing it. Such is the world of academe'.
Problem is that Sociology of Education is so broad that it can't be condensed into a "course". Rather it is "life in the classroom" no matter where that may be...from primary to post doctoral studies. So teaching it is in a sense trying to condense life in the class room into a course that has definable parameters. Sure,,, use a big amorprous word when limits would be sufficient. Nonetheless, (whateverthatmeans) tonight, or this evening, or later today, or however you wish to describe the time between 6 and 9, 16 plus people will be forced to endure what I want to throw their way because I am the teacher, instructor, professor, who is in charge because the U pays me to be there and do what I am doing. And they or it dosen't (or don't if you prefer they) have a clue what I am doing in the classroom ...only that I am "qualified" to do whatever it is that I am doing.
What I do is have fun with my friends who have paid money to be there. Kind of like a live play except I involve the audience or more correctly I let the audience construct the play.
Genug or if I were an ancient Greek I would say...take this message from marathon to Athens...Thus the Marathon???
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