but then we’ll have to ask ourselves in a most Pirsig like fashion, what is ‘good’? and we’ll whack our heads with Sisyphean glee.

i’m sure Todd is a good teacher. self-awareness and doubt actually are admirable qualities in this profession.

I walked in on day one and told them that this was not going to be easy. We had a short but steep scaffold up to college level work in the subject. And now I’m pulling from a college lab manual. _Those_ kids are doing the work and understanding the material. We often have to re-cement the background knowledge that they needed when walking in the door, but now that they know why they need it, it only takes one quick review to make them seek it out.

Had I come at them with rap music infused with science lyrics, which surely would have been entertainment, I think they would probably have laughed, been eyes unglazed, but still not committed to the class or their education.

Now they are talking about, “When I graduate,” and, “When I go to college.”

And besides, as teachers, it is an easier job for us to educate than to entertain :)

Not so sure of that innate theory, John. If that were the case, wouldn’t I also have an innate sense of meaning and purpose, too? I’d think things would be really easy if it was innate.