I've got another confession to make -- I'm your fool.
Dear Education Professor,
You know, I thought I had you pinned. I really did. I figured you were an overly friendly, sickly-sweet Pollyanna type with passive-aggressive tendancies. I thought you were rather inflexible, and more than mildly intolerant of educational ideologies that didn't quite match your own.
And then I go to a meeting that I'd scheduled with you .
In this meeting, I was surprisingly (at least it was surprising to me) honest with you. I revealed that I have four, maybe five lesson plans out of twenty done for a project due on the twenty-sixth. I asked some serious questions about how I should be approaching this so I can actually finish it on time, and in the way you're expecting it.
You responded politely, without any of your typical sugar-laced snark. You gave me some suggestions, talked about how I could work them in to what I've already got done, and you didn't even bat an eyelash when I told you how far behind I was.
What the hell happened?
I'll freely admit that I'm happy to be proved wrong about your character -- I certainly didn't want to not like you. I'm just trying to figure it all out is all. It's going to have to wait though, as I have lesson plans to write out, two papers that I really need to get my ass in gear for, that stupid little business history thingie that needs attention, and some other assorted reading that I really ought to be doing.
Cheers.
Pleasantly surprised,
Percy O'Leary
You know, I thought I had you pinned. I really did. I figured you were an overly friendly, sickly-sweet Pollyanna type with passive-aggressive tendancies. I thought you were rather inflexible, and more than mildly intolerant of educational ideologies that didn't quite match your own.
And then I go to a meeting that I'd scheduled with you .
In this meeting, I was surprisingly (at least it was surprising to me) honest with you. I revealed that I have four, maybe five lesson plans out of twenty done for a project due on the twenty-sixth. I asked some serious questions about how I should be approaching this so I can actually finish it on time, and in the way you're expecting it.
You responded politely, without any of your typical sugar-laced snark. You gave me some suggestions, talked about how I could work them in to what I've already got done, and you didn't even bat an eyelash when I told you how far behind I was.
What the hell happened?
I'll freely admit that I'm happy to be proved wrong about your character -- I certainly didn't want to not like you. I'm just trying to figure it all out is all. It's going to have to wait though, as I have lesson plans to write out, two papers that I really need to get my ass in gear for, that stupid little business history thingie that needs attention, and some other assorted reading that I really ought to be doing.
Cheers.
Pleasantly surprised,
Percy O'Leary