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“Oh, I have an easy life–by comparison. I have tried being a teacher, and I am not fit for that: my mind is too fond of wandering on its own way. I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for and never really doing it.” <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mary, early in book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s a set of questions here, though: what happens if what you got into teaching to do diverges dramatically from what your school is asking you to do? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What if the kind of teaching you’re asked to do does not allow your mind to wander? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What happens when you want to create transformative experiences for your students and instead you’re being asked to drain their souls? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eliot, George, and Ronjaunee Chatterjee. Middlemarch: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds, and Contemporary Reactions, Criticism<\/em>. Norton Critical Edition. New York: W.W. Norton, 2024.
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