@bluebayou There is the monstrosity aspect of kids in grade school that I don’t feel appropriately inspired to deal with (you need to teach well, and you need to parent well). That said, I was shooting some hoops yesterday and thought about your post, and that it might not be a bad idea to coach and teach at a high school.
@BrownParent Thanks for reinforcing what I need to know, that the PhD path sucks in terms of nurture. May re-visit that grind website.
@jack63 Thanks, I’ll definitely consider picking up that book. The “other” English teacher at my high school assigned Catcher in the Rye, while mine assigned something different. So it would be a nice new read for me. Appreciate you going out of the way to get me that nice quote.
As far as whether I really want a school to nurture me? I guess I damn well really want one to. Back in grade school, I felt like I was living life on another level, because I was such a hard-working student and got the nurturing positive feedback from good teachers. I guess I’m currently experiencing sort of a withdrawal from that high. There seems to be nothing that can match the purity of working my ass off, sensing self-development, and receiving positive feedback. But the more posts I’m reading here, the more I’m convinced there is little hope in re-igniting that fire in graduate school.