Some go to college and eventually succeed in getting out. Others go to college and never succeed in getting out. They're called professors.
— HL Mencken (@HLMenckenBot) November 29, 2012
See yesterday's 'Sweater' post for a full explanation....
Here's the Menckenishable passage:
...Just before she passed away, in 2001, Grandma E., who always liked to tell people, especially real doctors, that her Grandson was also a 'doctor', asked me if I was ever going to finish going to school.
At the time I'd already been holding down a 'real' academic job long enough that I also had tenure.
Which meant that I was a lifer.
So I smiled and told her no - I was going to go to school until I retired, maybe longer.
Not sure what she thought about that...
Scary....
Almost heebie-jeebies scary I tell ya.
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4 comments:
Hi. These little mots always annoy me. The one about teachers is a classic by the Trite. These mots are brain in motion without being in gear. I'm surprised olde HL would make a comment like this.
Burgess
Burgess--
See your point, but....
I kind of took this a jovial jab...Truth be told, I never planned to be in it for life...Went to Gradual school because I really, really liked become an expert at something...What followed was the chance to make a little, tiny dent in the Uni (with no 'ity' on the end).
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Some of my most influential mentors were teachers.
I never got to uni(versity), I'm talking high school and elementary.
Kim--
In large part, one of my high school biology teachers is the reason I am one.
A (kinda/sorta) biology teacher, I mean.
He was really inspiring - and at the time he inspired me to think about doing research (the teaching part came later).
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