becoming a teacher

[Red October]

do you think being a high school teacher is a good way to help the revolution? i was thinking about becoming a civics or history teacher as a proffession, even though its working for the government. despite that, you can teach kids about leftism and avoid teaching all the textbook bullshit that brainwashes kids. what do you think about this?

[which doctor]

If you are considering teaching, I would suggest you look at the university/college level. You will have much more freedom compared to a secondary school. With secondary school you have to follow the curriculum, follow the state mandates, etc. You will come in youthful and idealistic, but will leave disheartened. As a teacher you will find that there is only so much you can do to help these kids. If you teach anything radical at a secondary school, you have the possibility of getting fired.

I would suggest you look at the university level.

[Hit The North]

It was a high school teacher - my history teacher - who first turned me on to Marxism, loaning me a copy of the Manifesto of the Communist Party. He changed my life.

[Fawkes]

I want to be a professor of either Political Science or Sociology.

[Tekun]

Originally posted by [email protected] 22, 2007 11:04 pm
If you are considering teaching, I would suggest you look at the university/college level. You will have much more freedom compared to a secondary school. With secondary school you have to follow the curriculum, follow the state mandates, etc. You will come in youthful and idealistic, but will leave disheartened. As a teacher you will find that there is only so much you can do to help these kids. If you teach anything radical at a secondary school, you have the possibility of getting fired.

I would suggest you look at the university level.
I mos definitely agree

Professors at the university level have far more freedom to expound their beliefs when they teach
Especially, sociology and history professors

Im planning on teaching at the university level, either history or heterodox economics

[Red October]

true, a college proffessor would have much more freedom to teach what they like, but i think people are much more open to new ideas in high school.

[Luís Henrique]

Being a school teacher is a job, like any other. And then, like any job, it is completely different from any other job.

Ask yourself if you like teaching; if you like History or "civics" enough to dedicate most or your time to studying it and teaching it. See that you don't have throat problems (check if your relatives haven't, too). Take care that you are not alergic to dust or to chalk. Be sure that you have patience enough to deal with teenagers and stupid people - particularly, with stupid teenagers.

Understand that teachers represent the State within their classes, and ask yourself to what extent you are prepared to live a double life, simultaneously as a State servant and a fighter against State.

Be prepared to work too much, to achieve very lousy results, to earn low wages. Ensure yourself that you know how to deal with direct disrespect towards your person, with sarcasm, cynicism, sheer debauchery, etc.

Then, go and do it. Just not forget to join the union, too.

Luís Henrique

[Ander]

I have thoughts of becoming a social studies teacher but I'm not sure. How much harder is it to become a university professor than it is to teach at a high school?

[Luís Henrique]

Originally posted by [email protected] 23, 2007 06:06 pm
I have thoughts of becoming a social studies teacher but I'm not sure. How much harder is it to become a university professor than it is to teach at a high school?
To teach at high school you need to be a graduate; to be a professor you need a post-graduation.

I think those things vary between countries, but selection for University professors is usually much more strict than selection for high-school teachers (in Brazil, you need to be approved in a public contest to teach in either, if they are public, but the contest for professors is much more difficult. In private universities, you usually also need to undergo a selective procedure, while in private high-schools you essentially have to be recomended by someone who already works there, and to show yourself for an interview, duely shaved or using proper make up, according to your biologic sex - attempts to do it the other way round usually are not successful).

A professor has to study a lot more than a high-school teacher, and usually is required to conduct some research in their field. A high-school teacher has to deal with teenagers (in the United States, this means, on top of what it normally means, dealing with the cheerleader subculture).

A university professor earns a lot more than a high-school teacher, and has much more social prestige.

Luís Henrique

[Cyanide Suicide]

I've often had thoughts of becoming a highschool teacher of history or government. My world history teacher is surely the the farthest left of anyone I know personally, although he's just liberal really. Good guy. But yeah, I like the idea of introducing political theories to highschoolers who have previously not understood them.

[YSR]

Planning on trying to teach at high school. History/government and whatnot.

Gotta get those kids reading good books early.

[Ander]

This generation of revolutionaries will be comprised of history teachers!

[Janus]

you can teach kids about leftism and avoid teaching all the textbook bullshit that brainwashes kids. what do you think about this?
In terms of helping out kids and making them more open and more knowledgeable about different ideas then yes, it's a pretty good idea.

[midnight marauder]

I think on the topic of whether to teach at a college or university vs. at a highschool, one important topic that I always consider when I think about becoming a teacher is that at the high school level (depending on where you teach) you'll have the ability to reach a lot of students that might not necessesarily have the means to get into a college or university, people that have a great deal of revolutionary potential that might not be aware of the different leftist idealogies out there.