My Completely Idealistic Reconstruction of the K-12 Experience
An aquaintance of mine talked to me about going to his son's back-to-school-night and being blown away by the history teacher. "That guy was incredible! He was engaging and helping us make all of these connections. I seriously wanted to take his class." I've heard comments like this before. While I hope that the teaching profession has improved and will continue to improve, I think a comment like this is not just because this history teacher was better than any teacher my acquaintance had in school. I think it's actually more likely that the 15 year old version of himself would have been way less sold on the class. My theory is that it has less to do with the quality of teaching and more to do with what it takes to truly appreciate education. As a student, I think I was an okay spanish student. I took it for four straight years and got pretty good grades. But I wasn't extremely motivated to learn. Last year I started to get more ambitious. I started to think