Sometimes, I have a very hard time figuring out what to write about when I'm not reviewing a book. There is, I suppose a lot of things out there to talk about, but I'm naturally a little reticent about my political beliefs, I believe religion/belief is private, and most of what I do day to day is teach and read. I can talk teaching all day long but I know most people don't find it that interesting.
It just seems like we spend so much slathering the internet with mindless observations about life that we don't spend a lot of time living it. We live in a perpetual state of distraction. The challenge is finding the worthwhile mired in a morass of inanity.
I don't know if "talking about teaching" is uninteresting. I'm clearly biased as a postgraduate medical educator. But there must be weight, or at least concentrated and tetanic force, directed against the silly prejudice that teaching is just something that professional failures do--or that it's easy, natural, unlessoned, and obvious. Finding new and better ways to talk about teaching and write about teaching ought to be revolutionary, at least, if not interesting. And aren't revolutionary things interesting?
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