Things I Want to Tell My Students

1) I have been in school longer than you have been alive. Perhaps there are things I could teach you.

2) Talking in my class, while I'm talking, will not earn you any points.

3) I could have, theoretically, given birth to some of you. Keep that in mind when speaking to me.

4) I don't care whether you were valedictorian, class president, most beautiful, most popular, star athlete in three sports, or all of the above. I don't care who your parents are, how much money they make, and what kind of car you/they drive. I do care, however, about teaching you. I want you to learn. I want you to enjoy learning. In an ideal world, you'd be as passionate about the subject I am teaching as I am. I would settle, though, for you to at least feign interest for the hour to 3 hours a week that we are together for the next 16 weeks. I want you to understand that learning is a process and that while you may forget the material you learned in my class next semester, I hope you learned things about life that you can use in your college career and beyond.