I thought it would be nice to do an entry on an inspirational teaching story. Unfortunately, the course so far has been very uninspiring (to say the least). It seems the course was designed for people who have never used a computer before, don’t understand the common sense reasons for why teaching is important, and have no ambitions of forming ideas outside of the ones the lecturers have pushed on us. I had no idea there would be so many people who would fall into that category, but apparently there are. With that said, this strange twilight zone of teacher’s education is standard all over the UK it seems, and maybe over the world? How is it, then, that I keep myself from saying “fuck this, I’m going home!” Well it’s the children. This is just
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