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hunter

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4. A healthy curiousity, some critical reading skills, and the rejection of anti-intellectualism...
Mon May 26, 2014, 03:19 PM
May 2014

... that's what an education is. Actually enjoying learning something new. Not a college degree.

Some work demands further: engineering airliners, bridges, spaceships, medicine... but most work is not like that.

Even when I got my life all together, I washed out as a big city science teacher, in spite of my science degree and my high test scores.

That was the most difficult, most stressful job I ever had. There are grandmas, ordinary high school graduates with no further formal education, who might have been only a chapter ahead in the science text, who could have handled that job better than I did.

Anyways, I hope I'm not flaunting anything.

This ought to be a comfortable place for everyone, but sadly this is the internet and there are mean people everywhere.



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