Mr. / Mrs. / Mss.
cross-posted in a comment about the use of "Mr/Mrs/Mss" by teachers, professors and instructors :
Hmm, I have never been an official teacher yet, but somehow (due to respect and memory of my grand-father, who taught to little and grown-up kids in the 40's to 70's in a very old-fashioned formal manner, with "vous" and "Monsieur"/"Mademoiselle"/"Madame", and perhaps due to the idea of creating a space (the classroom) full of diginity to the act of teaching/learning)) I would like to use "Mr/Mrs" with my students, if I had some. Indeed it would even create a 3rd objection to the two you mentionned, the difficulty to make personnal communication possible between the student and teacher (such communication being sometimes good or necessary, it seems to me), but... I don't know.. I think it's just that I felt SO MUCH being treated like crap as a pupil and student... I mean, what is a student, if not someone that everybody else is waiting for the end of his/her learning process to finally be "someone" in the "real" world of work. I mean, every possible medias only talk about working people (stars, soldiers, politicians, business people) and work life (accomplishments). Student life is a period of void, of waiting, of being mentally pushed and pulled, of holding no responsibility whatsoever except the physicaly and morally (mentally unattainable until adult life) burden of your own self. A waiting room where the student's future, next social class, next world, is painted invisibly and painfully by ghostly forces, appearing from times to times in the expression of marks, tests, teacher's comments, and dreams and nightmares. To this I would like to create opposition field, as a teacher I would like to teach confidence and respect. I want to teach how to see yourself as being somebody else. If my name were "John Smith", "Mr Smith" would seem somebody else, somebody to be respected, yet it would be me. To teach displacement.
no time to write more, gotta go to the gym.
Apart of that, I'm ok, situation is : stilly happily married, got a job a few days ago (waiting for the contract), found a place in san francisco. will update if audience requires it.
Hmm, I have never been an official teacher yet, but somehow (due to respect and memory of my grand-father, who taught to little and grown-up kids in the 40's to 70's in a very old-fashioned formal manner, with "vous" and "Monsieur"/"Mademoiselle"/"Madame", and perhaps due to the idea of creating a space (the classroom) full of diginity to the act of teaching/learning)) I would like to use "Mr/Mrs" with my students, if I had some. Indeed it would even create a 3rd objection to the two you mentionned, the difficulty to make personnal communication possible between the student and teacher (such communication being sometimes good or necessary, it seems to me), but... I don't know.. I think it's just that I felt SO MUCH being treated like crap as a pupil and student... I mean, what is a student, if not someone that everybody else is waiting for the end of his/her learning process to finally be "someone" in the "real" world of work. I mean, every possible medias only talk about working people (stars, soldiers, politicians, business people) and work life (accomplishments). Student life is a period of void, of waiting, of being mentally pushed and pulled, of holding no responsibility whatsoever except the physicaly and morally (mentally unattainable until adult life) burden of your own self. A waiting room where the student's future, next social class, next world, is painted invisibly and painfully by ghostly forces, appearing from times to times in the expression of marks, tests, teacher's comments, and dreams and nightmares. To this I would like to create opposition field, as a teacher I would like to teach confidence and respect. I want to teach how to see yourself as being somebody else. If my name were "John Smith", "Mr Smith" would seem somebody else, somebody to be respected, yet it would be me. To teach displacement.
no time to write more, gotta go to the gym.
Apart of that, I'm ok, situation is : stilly happily married, got a job a few days ago (waiting for the contract), found a place in san francisco. will update if audience requires it.