This may very well be true as wellAnd if so it doesn't bode well for the future of education :(
Failing another academic job I may actually go into private tutoring -- that way you're free from the constraints of national syllabi, to teach what you want how you want to. That might be quite nice, especially if I could catch university-level kids who want to move on faster than their courses are letting them. A friend of mine did that here, a quantum mechanics course in the evenings for *first-year* university students that's at least as good as my fourth-year course was. It was seriously well attended and she got awards for lecturing. Now that kind of thing does appeal. I'd teach relativity and statistical mechanics, properly.
Of course, my friend is also ludicrously gorgeous, which probably helped her, and I'm not, but I've had students tell me I can teach...
(Failing another academic job I may actually go into private tutoring -- that way you're free from the constraints of national syllabi, to teach what you want how you want to. That might be quite nice, especially if I could catch university-level kids who want to move on faster than their courses are letting them. A friend of mine did that here, a quantum mechanics course in the evenings for *first-year* university students that's at least as good as my fourth-year course was. It was seriously well attended and she got awards for lecturing. Now that kind of thing does appeal. I'd teach relativity and statistical mechanics, properly.
Of course, my friend is also ludicrously gorgeous, which probably helped her, and I'm not, but I've had students tell me I can teach...
boris the spider,
Wed 14 Oct 2009, 16:02,
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