Even when the scales tip too far to teaching, leaving what Girdler says "a hole in her CV," there's something to be said for an experience that lands many postdocs, including Girdler (who will be starting a tenure-track position at Kalamazoo College in the fall), jobs they're happy with.
What common sense has so far failed to teach, technology will surely now command.
Here's another: shortly before the 2008 Games he applied to be accepted to the European space programme as an astronaut, even going so far as to teach himself Russian.
It is far easier to teach your toddler how to calm down and fall asleep than to convince a media-addled, sleep-deprived teen to turn it all off and get under the covers.
One of the early Christian sects, the Messalians, even went so far as to teach that each human soul was inhabited by a personal demon -- after all, if one believes in a specially assigned "guardian angel," why not a specially assigned tempter as well?
While not a significant portion of corps members, traditionally prepared teachers placed by TFA help bolster their image by being far more ready to teach than their modal corps members and by staying in teaching for far longer.
Young Hui women, seeing the need for education among their people, are choosing to travel far from home to teach, often in small villages, she said.
In both regions thinkers who held to the idea of philosophy as formulated by the Eastern and Western philosophers thus far discussed continued to teach.
Even more welcome is the slimming-down of the syllabus in the new draft, after teachers complained about the overloading of the old one with endless facts and dates; far too many to teach in the time available in schools.
Friends say that Mr. Petraeus, who resigned from the C.I.A. on Nov. 9 because of an extramarital affair, so far has offers to teach from four universities, a grab bag of book proposals from publishers in New York and an interest in speaking and serving on corporate boards.
