OT: Teaching at a CC

[Alan Dayley]

WARNING: Tangential comment ahead!

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 6:34 AM, Kevin Fries <kfries6 at gmail.com> wrote:
...
> I loved my time in the classroom, interacting with the students.  Hated all
> the rest.  The only way I for one would ever consider going back to it would
> be as a retirement, get out of the house once or twice a week kind of
> situation.  For Lisa sugar coated the nightmare of politicking at a modern
> college.
>
> I was offered by a major university (Regius University) to finish my degree
> and come teach for them, and understand its not as bad at that level, but
> choose the corporate world because it was so nasty at the CC.
...

Ugh.

"nightmare of politicking" "nasty"

Makes me sad.  Another reason our current education system needs to change.

http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education.html

Alan