Danger: School's Open
This is the first fall since I turned five that I am not in a classroom as either a student or a professor. I am on sabbatical. My subconcious doesn't quite get that I am not in school. I am still having my usual opening of school dreams. Last night I was back in college with my old college friends. It was rather pleasant. Ultimately, college professors are simply college students who found a way for someone to pay them to stay on campus. This semsester I am being paid to stay away.
posted by redbarb at 5:30 PM
6 Comments:
Greetings!:
This may be a small, trivial comment, but I too have experienced professors going on sabbatical, but from the outside. I have trouble contacting an English musicologist/professor when he is on sabbatical or study leave, and miss the preaching of the Minister in Harvard's Memorial Church, also a professor in their Divinity School, when he goes on his sabbatical about every ten years. Yet one must hope that both these individuals benefit from their times off, thus benefiting those for whom they work, both professional colleagues and laymen alike!
Hoping this finds both you and your brother well,
J. V.
And, if I may please add something of which I did not think until after I had written the above, I also sometimes have school-related dreams. The latest one takes me back to my last two years of high school where I was dividing classes between the specialized boarding school I was primarily attending and a public high school to which I was being sent in order to obtain an accredited diploma. In this dream I find myself cutting classes at the boarding school for not having troubled to find out when they were, and apparently getting away with it! Yet I am _MOST_ thankful to wake up _JUST_ _IN_ _CASE_ I was eventually going to get into trouble! Hoping this does not sound too self-righteous, I did not actually do this when in school.
I further fear that I may have been insensitive this morning in not including you when writing of those on sabbatical benefiting both themselves and those for whom they work. I am of understanding that sabbatical, though called that, is often devoted to research, an important aspect of any professor's work. Thus I hope you will manage to strike a suitable balance between being able to rest and getting whatever research you may wish or need to do done!
J. V.
Just in case there was any ambiguity above, I actually _DID_ divide classes between those two schools, this arrangement not being unique to my dream.
J. V.
I had several professors in college that I would have paid to stay away from campus. But I'm not sure that would constitute a sabbatical.
I have lots of dreams about school, too. Mostly high school and college (sometimes they are intertwined). I also have teacher dreams from when I was teaching. I had one of those the other day.
Poster Suzanne, since, if I may be permitted to say so, I am inclined to think of you as a liberal with a temper, I find it hard to resist wondering whether you were too lenient or too strict with your students! Maybe you were a mix of both?
J. V.
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