Paul Rose '67 addresses UMUC friends at a 50th anniversary celebration in Heidelberg in October 1999. No matter how many degrees a person may have, he or she will not be ready for that first classroom assignment. New teachers inevitably work hard just to stay a chapter or two ahead of the students. But later in life, good teachers are what amounts to a walking data bank of information, anecdotes, etc., just waiting to pop out when needed. I believe that I learn more in every class I teach than do the students.
Teaching is more fun now than ever before.
In trying to refute my data, they reacted in unison. For example, they would not accept data from an FBI report stating that terrorists were generally highly educated people . . . My first course was American history to the civil war. . . . The situation in class was a bit chaotic as the education centers tried to organize what amounted to a small university literally overnight, without a staff and without adequate facilities. . . . Classes were overflowing and a seat was often hard to find.