Easytiger

Teaching my students to think clearly has always been my goal, no matter what subject I have them for. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, and it's so much easier to just hammer in a few select factoids and let the kids vomit them back at me. Generally, though, it feels good just to have made the attempt.
What kills me is when my students have no interest in becoming enlightened (I like to think that I can help in this process, but for all I know I'm leading them in the wrong direction, blinded as I am by my own unconscious indoctrination).

Long before I became a teacher, I came to the conclusion that there is no greater ill than being willfully ignorant. I believe that far too many people choose to act as though they don't know better, and that's the biggest problem we face as a species.

The real kicker is that being acting like you don't know better is so much fun, which hits home with me every time I get blind drunk. I know the hangover's coming. I know I shouldn't have that cigarette with my beer. And yet...