This is what teachers need to communicate to students when dealing with their questions, concerns and requests. Teachers must require students to hold their end of every agreement. Teaching at Penn has been a pleasure for me. Though it is time consuming and challenging, it gives me some personal feelings of reward and accomplishment. Furthermore, it is a pleasure to teach bright, young adults who generally look to the future with great enthusiasm.
Teaching ought to be an enjoyable learning experience.
If you bore yourself while you teach, you are most likely boring a whole room of other people as well. If one finds a way to enjoy the process, it seems to me that teaching can be an incredibly valuable personal experience from which one can learn a lot of subject material and much about human nature. The hope is, of course, that one s students are reaping these same rewards.