Posted by
Red Meat & Cigarettes on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 12:05:30 AM
What an important profession! The time-line of a teacher's life and career is helpful in understanding their liberal nature.They go to school for 12 years and then go to college for 4 more, Immediately following this avalanche of Knowledge they do an about face and go back to school and usually surround themselves with children, for the lofty goal of teaching them about a world they know of primarily from reading about it. We in the real world , read books as well, but humans don't live inside books and theories, Those should be an accompaniment to life not life itself. Unfortunately teacher's unions are advocates for teachers jobs, not for kids ...parents are A.W.O.L. too busy with work and personal matters. We are not sufficiently aware of the lack of common sense in the classroom. If you live in academia, it must seem like a distant place from the outside world we live in everyday. To many professors, the real world looks pedestrian and unenlightened...... it's that illusion that allows teachers to feel superior to parents, it allows them to disrespect our nation and it's traditions, it allows them to view social issues as their main concern above teaching history, math , reading, geography and science. They actually work for us... but this gets lost in their sheltered, agenda driven world.