And this is thing about teaching that would just get to me: standing up and talking about things I love and want other people to learn to love also, and meeting that enormous wall of indifference, and nothing I say makes the slightest bit of difference or the shallowest impression.
Man, I have nightmares about this. I don't know how you do it, I really don't.
You know all the students in that class are posting angsty song lyrics in their livejournals.
Date: 2005-03-05 04:12 am (UTC)And this is thing about teaching that would just get to me: standing up and talking about things I love and want other people to learn to love also, and meeting that enormous wall of indifference, and nothing I say makes the slightest bit of difference or the shallowest impression.
Man, I have nightmares about this. I don't know how you do it, I really don't.