As far as my experiences go, I’m rightOriginally Posted by Duke of Gloucester
. Perhaps your experiences have led you to a different conclusion
. I don’t mind agreeing to disagree in this case because of personal experience, that’s all I am judging my “bubble” statement on anyways.
Many of my teachers were in this bubble:
Spent their entire life in school learning or teaching
Always have benefits, including health, life and a retirement plan
Always have holidays off, plus spring break, winter break, summer break, etc.
Almost all union workers
Almost all democrats
Plus schools are their own little environments, designed for students and teachers to effectively live there 7-10 hours a day.
Throw in the fact that they have minimal contact with anyone outside the school environment (grocery store and gas station doesn’t count) and that’s a life in a bubble.
Now I agree that just about anyone that has worked a job for a long time is also in a bubble of their own too.
Many of my instructors in college were only part time and had “real jobs” in the field they were teaching. They were better able to relate classroom lessons with real world applications and would move the lesson structure to devote more time to more important areas. Most of my schoolteachers taught the same lessons from the same syllabus with the same texts for years, my mom had some of the same teachers I did and they taught the same class with the same books. The result was that I learned more usable knowledge from instructors that were more in touch with the real world than from those in the school “bubble” (outside the initial learning to read, write, spell, add, etc.).
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