this is a page from the new york city teaching fellows calendar from quite a few years ago. i was not a teaching fellow but i love their ad campaign. this hangs on the wall i face while i'm working.
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Oh, I miss this page from the calendar. I'm going to make one for myself. It's true, for sure, inspirational and feelgoody, but in times of frustration it also feels like a construct, a trick of the mind, a rationalization for lack of balance in one's life. But I did just have a 16 hour day.
i don't know, man. more important to whom? 5 years, and honestly, in the end, the job is important, but my doing it wasn't. it was just as important, but it stopped being challenging, interesting, and fun. thumb in the dike is important, too, but who on earth would actually WANT to do that?
i guess what i'm saying is, teaching as a profession has a lot more going for it than the feelings, but that's what people fixate on, and it has a narrow appeal and limited shelf-life. it's a good ad, but a bad reason to teach.
guess that makes some sense to me h..though i've been worried about your level of cynicism for some time now. the holier than thou stuff doesn't really help the larger eduication community if people who aren't interested in doing good work feel like they're doing the most important job in the world. is that kinda what you're getting at?
do it cause it could change things. do it cause you could learn something. do it like it's a cool project that's good now and might not be at some point and at that point you'll get out, right?
3 comments:
Oh, I miss this page from the calendar. I'm going to make one for myself. It's true, for sure, inspirational and feelgoody, but in times of frustration it also feels like a construct, a trick of the mind, a rationalization for lack of balance in one's life. But I did just have a 16 hour day.
i don't know, man. more important to whom? 5 years, and honestly, in the end, the job is important, but my doing it wasn't. it was just as important, but it stopped being challenging, interesting, and fun. thumb in the dike is important, too, but who on earth would actually WANT to do that?
i guess what i'm saying is, teaching as a profession has a lot more going for it than the feelings, but that's what people fixate on, and it has a narrow appeal and limited shelf-life. it's a good ad, but a bad reason to teach.
guess that makes some sense to me h..though i've been worried about your level of cynicism for some time now. the holier than thou stuff doesn't really help the larger eduication community if people who aren't interested in doing good work feel like they're doing the most important job in the world. is that kinda what you're getting at?
do it cause it could change things. do it cause you could learn something. do it like it's a cool project that's good now and might not be at some point and at that point you'll get out, right?
in other words pay attention. radical concept.
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