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Blog Response # 3

URL: http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/

"It all changed when I went to college and attended history classes that utterly mesmerized me. I wanted to become a history teacher. Now my relationship with history was not without its ups and downs. I probably changed interests while I was in college more times than a flee hops hairs on a hound dog. But I always came back to teaching, and never considered anything else but history.

Much of it was because I wanted to tell stories, like my college history teachers.  Telling great stories about great feats in time - well it sorta makes you part of those great deeds and almost insurmountable odds. But I wanted to be a teacher because.... Well, let me put it this way.

My daughter is in her last year of education school. She'll student teach next semester, and she, too, wants to teach history. But she doesn't get it yet - at least the way that I did when I was teaching. I watched, almost exclusively, the PBS channel, any show I could identify as having anything to do with history, or even science if it could be applied to our social world. I subscribed to far more magazines than I could afford (asking for subscriptions from family members for Christmas). But she's not doing that, and it worried me until.... Well it's the teacher thing."

As i was going through high school and the early part of college, i never thought that i would be a teacher, never.  But with all the great teachers i have had, both in college and high school, they have changed my mind.  With all the great examples provided to me by these instructors, they have seriously changed my mind about life.  I would like to tell stories and laugh and have a great time with my students as well.  This topic/article caught my attention because of the real-life examples that were given.