Stream of Consciousness

Over the years, I have had some teachers that I did not get along with. In high school, I often challenged teachers and I enjoyed being challenged back. For me it was about the learning not about being right. I wanted to fully explore the material and often I would ask the difficult questions. Most teachers enjoyed this and pushed back. It was a good relationship. However, my worst teacher refused to push back. She needed to be right and to not be challenged by a student. As a result, she gave up on teaching me. We proceeded to do nothing but read the newspaper for the rest of class. This was right after 9/11 in a history class, a great chance to challenge and explore history, but she just sat back while we did nothing. For the final, I went to ask her one question on the test and she just gave me the answer key and told me to copy it. That does not teach students anything, and I did not learn anything from that class.