Good Teachers Don't Have to Like Teaching

By Patrick O'Connor

I have a confession: I really don't like teaching. Each September, when I hear that eager teacher say she can't wait to get back in the classroom, I look at her with a little bit of suspicion. Even when my class conversations are on point and I am at the top of my pedagogical game, at the end of the day I trudge back to my car, throw my backpack on top of a crumbling hill of paper coffee cups, drop into the driver's seat, and deflate.  Click here for more as it is worth the read.