Teaching

I teach the most engaged, prepared, privileged kids in the world. They're all at least 18 years old, and nearly all chose U of C because they wanted a rigorous intellectual experience. I teach for a couple hours a day a couple days a week. And it's still really hard and really exhausting.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/19/opinion/19moore.html?pagewanted=2&ei=5087%0A&em&en=ef20308a7c13c647&ex=1169355600

You've got to hand it to the people who teach K-12 in public underfunded schools, who then get to hear about how they should work harder and are bad at their jobs. Priorities are at of wack in this country. NYT also had an article about what 1.2 trillion dollars would have bought instead of the Iraq war. Umm how about some resources for education rather than punitive No Child Left Behind. Argh.