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Robert Brenner That is interesting. However, most of the kids in the class don't know Mr. McCullough. What is your job? Are you a teacher as well?
Larry Hiday We were kind of wondering, Mr. McCullough, what is your favorite color?
Summer Rice So we know that Ms. McCullough really liked getting a new dog but what do you think about it?
Bryce King Hi, Mr. M! I'm a musician myself, and I'd just would like to say I found your slice incredibly interesting. Where do you teach?
Kelsey McLaughlin Where did you and Ms. McCullough meet?
The idea she sewed into my brain was simply this: ignorance is NOT bliss, and what you don't know can hurt you.
Speaking of which, when it came time to choose my major, I thought to myself "I really like writing/talking to people, but being on a newspaper staff was so stressful! I need something with less stress. Aha! I could just be an English teacher instead of a Journalist!" Oh, how stupid I was.
Now that I've been teaching for 5 years, I realize just how much my ignorance didn't lead me into that stress-less job I wanted. Donald Quinn describes what it's like well:
“If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 30 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job.”
Donald Quinn
In that regard, and several "accidents" I won't go into, it's been a mixed bag of happy/unhappy moments for me, but that's what love is all about. Romeo and Juliet ain't got nothin' on me and Mrs. McCullough. What I mean is R&J had an infatuation with each other, and that's a transient idea. Building a lasting relationship means that you have to confront all kinds of ideas you're not going to be happy about. But if it makes her happy... eh, I can deal with it :-)
(O_O)! <--me
I'll let her tell the rest.
Zero Dark Reading
It really upsets me when I hear people talk like this. It goes against everything I stand for. Intelligence is a privilege that bears with it the responsibility that it be used for the betterment of mankind, but people sure don't make it easy.
Fredrick Douglass, in his autobiography, cites reading as the first 'something' that makes him feel human, saying the slave owners who tried to keep him from reading were:
"shutting me up in mental darkness."
http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Frederick_Douglass/The_Narrative_of_the_Life_of_Frederick_Douglass/Chapter_VII_p1.html
See also, what Fredrick Douglass says about how reading set him free here: http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Frederick_Douglass/The_Narrative_of_the_Life_of_Frederick_Douglass/Chapter_VI_p1.html
-Mr. McCullough, over and out! :-)
p.s. Take care of Mrs. McCullough for me while you're at it. She works harder than you think.