"Let’s start with the force field. No-one tells you about this when you start teaching, but it’s as true as the live-long day, the truest word I’ll ever say. The average developed world teenager comes with a supernatural force-field around them that inhibits communication from any person older than them, but especially teachers. Learning to identify and penetrate this force field at will, on a regular basis, is an a priori requirement to be successful in teaching liberal arts classes."
(I wrote this as part of a critical essay for the CHE this spring. They turned it down. But I still like it. You can read the whole thing here for free.)
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