a very strange enchanted boy

[lotesse]

So I'm doing this workshop at school for a week, to train half-a-dozen baby college professors. It's sort of a ghost town around here, with everyone away on break, and I was terribly depressed and lonely last night when I got in. But now I think that this can be okay. Maybe it will even be sort of cool.

Right now more than anything I want a chance to get to work. I think that because of my background I've had to think a lot more about the natrue of teaching and learning than most of my age group. From fifth grade on, I was always looking for something better, something real. And in that process I tried an awful lot of things.

So now I find myself with a lot of strongly-held convictions that are hugely untried. Last term I tried some of them out--TAing Shakespeare was a blast, and as a final project my prof handed the last week of class over to me, and told me to use it to teach "The Tempest." And I had a blast.

I want to do this. I want to teach. But it can be hard for me to articulate why, because education comes so naturally to me. It's difficult for me to explain why learning is important, because I've always seen it as self-evident.

And navel gazing, clearly.

Comments

[slashfairy.livejournal.com]

When you see it, when something you've done helps someone else "get it", what do you see? How do you know that it's worked? How do you feel when that happens? Is there a set of thoughts/feelings/sensations/ideas that is connected to that moment, set of moments?

[lotesse]

God. Sometimes, people just light up. You can see it switch swinging, opening out. The problem just sort of melts, unfolds like tissue paper. It's an adrenaline rush on both sides, I think. And it's the reason why I'm in this business--for the sudden moments of blinding clarity. I'm talking like a brochure, here, but I do actually mean it. I love academia.

Completely Off-topic...

[bravevindictive.livejournal.com]

Forgive me for this, but I was just looking at your profile. I wasn't even aware there were fics featuring Howl and Sophie. You've inspired a new interest.

*off to find these fics*

[yourstupidface.livejournal.com]

I think that because of my background I've had to think a lot more about the natrue of teaching and learning than most of my age group. From fifth grade on, I was always looking for something better, something real. ...

I want to do this. I want to teach. But it can be hard for me to articulate why, because education comes so naturally to me.

You goddamned arrogant cunt.