It Begins

I don't know why I like the idea of blogging so much... there is something 'safe' about it. I get to barf my random thoughts onto a computer screen in the secret hope that somebody, somewhere, out there will care enough to read what I have to say. In a word, I find this concept liberating.

I have decided to take it to the next level. I have had my own blog, which truthfully I rarely write on, for about two years. But the initial purpose of my blogging has been lost. I really do want to get people to think. To look at an experience of another and say wow, that makes me see the world differently.

So I interduce to you my friends and colleagues, my fellow teaching assistants of SDSU. Our private conversations about education, funding, democracy, teaching philosophy, our fears, our hopes, our dreams for ourselves and our students will now become yours to chew on.

As the true teachers of students forced into 500 seat lecture halls, we see first hand what the education system has robbed from the once playful and promising youth of our country. We learn that we have to spend most of our time "un-teaching" our students, who have become watered-down images of their true selves. So worried about what is right and not being what is wrong. Every week in our pathetic 50 minutes of time with our 30-40 students we pry ourselves through a tiny crack, an opening, into our student's minds and hearts in hopes of cultivating a creative, insightful and motivated young adult.

At times, it is frustrating. At times, it is disheartening. At times, it is exhilarating. At times, it is everything.

Come along on this journey with us.