Blacken my name to the King
All this study isn't good for me.
I'm an arrogant little thing as it is, especially in those areas in which I know a bit, and it isn't healthy to be consistently in the right when you disagree with a teacher. I know the salaries aren't high, and it's not everyone who would teach for a pittance if there is something more lucrative. But still I feel that somebody who has a presumption to teach ought to have some expertise to go with it. A lot of expertise, to be exact. No one can know everything, obviously, but the good sign is when a person admits some ignorance rather then persist in being wrong merely for the sake of reputation. I'm quite bloody-minded and have a good memory, and it's no trouble to me to come home and check in a dictionary, in a dozen dictionaries if necessary, and also rake the Internet for an answer. It's often quite easy to get it, too. The unfortunate circumstance is that when I do that I'm usually proved right. Say nine out of ten, although at the moment I can only remember two instances when I challenged some teacher's statement (even if only to myself) and then found myself wrong. Be assured that I do challenge when I feel like it, and what happens is that I'm encouraged in that attitude rather than not. What with my usual dislike of people who are stupid, or at least much more stupid than they pretend to be, I can really become very unpleasant if this goes on.
The answer is, obviously, to skip all the lessons I don't feel like going to, but if I do it wholesale, there might be some problems in getting a degree - which I still want.
I'm an arrogant little thing as it is, especially in those areas in which I know a bit, and it isn't healthy to be consistently in the right when you disagree with a teacher. I know the salaries aren't high, and it's not everyone who would teach for a pittance if there is something more lucrative. But still I feel that somebody who has a presumption to teach ought to have some expertise to go with it. A lot of expertise, to be exact. No one can know everything, obviously, but the good sign is when a person admits some ignorance rather then persist in being wrong merely for the sake of reputation. I'm quite bloody-minded and have a good memory, and it's no trouble to me to come home and check in a dictionary, in a dozen dictionaries if necessary, and also rake the Internet for an answer. It's often quite easy to get it, too. The unfortunate circumstance is that when I do that I'm usually proved right. Say nine out of ten, although at the moment I can only remember two instances when I challenged some teacher's statement (even if only to myself) and then found myself wrong. Be assured that I do challenge when I feel like it, and what happens is that I'm encouraged in that attitude rather than not. What with my usual dislike of people who are stupid, or at least much more stupid than they pretend to be, I can really become very unpleasant if this goes on.
The answer is, obviously, to skip all the lessons I don't feel like going to, but if I do it wholesale, there might be some problems in getting a degree - which I still want.