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All teachers get discouraged. Emily Brontë wrote Wuthering Heights after she’d quit her teacher job in the middle of the school year. She was homesick, lonely, and I’m guessing completely depressed. It’s not like teaching is fun every single day for anyone. But the good students can make it a little easier, and they usually make up about a fourth of the class, and, in my experience, there’s usually a brilliant, quiet one in the bunch.
- Dear Reader, by Mary O'Conell (via teaching-everydayisdifferent)So I used to have a Russian friend who had a pretty thick accent and like a lot of Russians tended to eschew articles. She would say things like “Get in car.” And stuff.
Well one day this asshole who had been kind of tagging along with us asks her why she talks like that because it makes her sound dumb and I still remember her response word for word.
“Me? Dumb? Maybe in America you have to say get in THE car because you are so stupid that people might just get in random car, but in Russia we don’t need to say that. We just fucking know because we are not stupid.”
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Hell is the absence of the people you long for.
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