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    We learn

    So,

    Tomorrow, we start teaching again — I had vowed never to do it, but alas, I am doing it, again.  I do sense that this will be the last time I do it 'till 2013.

    Don't believe what they tell you — teaching is exhausting.  There is a fundamental difference between wanting to know something and having to know it.

    Furthermore, there is a difference between that and needing to know.  My job, and I do suspect it is not to teach anybody anything, but to create the 'environment' for them to learn it.

    I'd go as far as to say:

    nobody is ever taught anything.

    I neither have the temperament to explain that nor do I have all my 'arguments' in line to support that — I only sense it.  I suspect someday, I'll come back to this, for now, lets roll with it.

    I am some how looking forward to this academic year — I envision a good year, and that 'good' is not reliant on what the learners will be producing or of what calibre they are, all I know is:

    … come end of December, they will be that good.

    For someone who is almost an atheist, I tend to have a lot o' faith in things I am not in control of.  I never like the word belief, it sounds devoid of reason.

    Okay, I digress — let me get back to planning for school.

    Until, until.