Anyone ever thought of being a History Teacher?

[Embark]

It's something my wife tells me I should do when I get out of the Marine Corps. I was just wondering since that so many of you have so much knowledge of things that happened in the past if any of you have ever given thought to trying to teach todays generation what you know?

[Synjin]

I am one... and I can tell you that 99.9% of my students would be bored spitless with the endless minutea that the grogs on this forum love so dearly [:D]

Honestly, the best history teachers are great story tellers. If you can make it interesting to them and help them form connections that they can relate to, you'll be well on your way.

I can tell you more about if in email if you're interested.

ebryan1@san.rr.com

[Embark]

Well considering I just re enlisted and have about 16 years left...I still have a while yet. I am still a young buck of only 23 years

[rogueusmc]

What unit are ya with?...and where are ya stationed?

[Embark]

Right now I am in 29 Palms, I would say more but in the past I have had strange people contact me because of info I posted on a message board. If you want to know more you can contact me at embark247at hotmail.com

[pasternakski]

I am a teacher. If you can stand it, it's the best job you could ever have. Be sure, however, to reconcile yourself first to the demands of contemporary society before you undertake such a profession.

[RUPD3658]

I retire from police work in 3572 days (August 14th, 2014 not that I am counting or anything ) and plan on teaching History at either the High School or college level. My wife is a teacher so I am familar with the ins and outs of the profession. I teach at the police academy (Emergency Vehicle Operations, Narcotics, and Counterfeit ID recognition) so I know I have a knack for it.

Had there been money in it in the 80's when I was in college I would be a teacher now. But in 3572 days they will give me 65% of my pay not to come to work anymore so money will not be an issue and I can do what I love.

The one thing I will make all of my students do is read 1984 and Starship Troopers. 1984 shows how history can be rewritten and Starship Troopers is a great explaination of why we fight.

[Embark]

Well the whole retirement from the Marine Corps thing should be able to provide some of the lost income from not pursueing a more lucritive profession. Money has never been a huge deal to me. Otherwise I wouldn't have stayed in the military

[RevRick]

ORIGINAL: RUPD3658
The one thing I will make all of my students do is read 1984 and Starship Troopers. 1984 shows how history can be rewritten and Starship Troopers is a great explaination of why we fight.

The one thing I will make all of my students do is read 1984 and Starship Troopers. 1984 shows how history can be rewritten and Starship Troopers is a great explaination of why we fight.

Throw in "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" for a good dose of why we fight - and you might be the crustiest History teacher I would go a long way to listen to and argue with. To bad they did such an egregious excremental job with the movie "Starship Troopers."

[Belce]

Just like I, Robot <sigh>

Look, its a neat title, but our folks in marketing think the story sucks so we came up with something more marketable.

[madmickey]

I wrote a history book about Patch 1.3 it is called "The Patch That Never Was"

[Belce]

How good were my history teachers in school?

I went to university and took Canadian military history, thats how good they were.

When you hear how Canadians when attacked by gas and first engaged by the Germans in WWI and held their ground by pissing on some cloth to tie over their face to neutralize the gas and held in 1915 at Ypres and later how the Germans knew they were in trouble when Canadians took the line in front of them. Kurt Meyer, general of the 12 SS, saying he would rather face Russians than Canadians in WW2. The one of only 2 foreign units to recieve a Presdential Citiation is Canadian, the other is Austrailian and at the end of that day, only the Canadians held the field, both recieved for action at the same battle.

Imagine for a moment how horrible the first gas attack was against the French Algerian troops was, afterwards they noted that even the insects were dead, that animals that burrow in the ground were found dead just out of their bolt holes and in that night the Germans were denied the fruit of their victory by Canadian counterattacks. The wife of the man responsible for developing this weapon commited suicide that night as they celebrated because it was such a horror. Adolf Hitler denied this to his troops due to his own experience with it. And the next day, when Canadians for the first time faced a European army they tied cloth wet with their own urine to their faces and held. If you go to Ypres today, every day you can here Taps played in honour of those Canadians that saved their city.

This has been another example of boring Canadian history. Yes its been jazzed up some, but it is essentially true. imo

[ZOOMIE1980]

ORIGINAL: Embark

It's something my wife tells me I should do when I get out of the Marine Corps. I was just wondering since that so many of you have so much knowledge of things that happened in the past if any of you have ever given thought to trying to teach todays generation what you know?

Hope you are ready to go back to college, get your teaching certificate in your specialty, then spend two years a student teacher/substitute making less than $25,000 a year before you get your first job. And then you get to fight the state on you curriculum and have every candy-a$$ed left wing moron parent threaten to sue you because of your stance on the Atomic Bombings of Japan or the supramecy of Western European culture and it's child, American culture on the planet.

[TulliusDetritus]

I did History in university, but never thought of being a history teacher. I hate teaching, in fact. But I love reading history.

[Halsey]

A classroom full of kids! Kindergarten Cop comes to my mind.[:D]

I'd have to run it like Boot Camp. Ildisciplined little monsters that are out there now![:D]

[PeteG662]

Having a history major in college I can understand the points here but with modern society and some "revisionist" history being more the norm the profession would not appeal to me. Good luck with your endeavor though.

[spence]

(in reply to Belce)

Does Canada still have an Army? (couldn't resist)

BIT OF TRIVIA

A few days before the German attack at Ypres a German deserter was picked up by the French. He filled them in on the details of the upcoming offensive. The French Corps commander dismissed the intel report as incredulous. His name: PUTZ

[testarossa]

ORIGINAL: spence

(in reply to Belce)

Does Canada still have an Army? (couldn't resist)

The best defense is absence of enemies[;)].

[historyis]

ORIGINAL: Tallyman662

Having a history major in college I can understand the points here but with modern society and some "revisionist" history being more the norm the profession would not appeal to me. Good luck with your endeavor though.

Oh, I will second you on the revisionist angle. In fact, I wrote something about it not more than 2 weeks ago in another arena.

http://historyishere.joeuser.com/index.asp?aid=31916

It just makes me so angry!

[madmickey]

ORIGINAL: testarossa

ORIGINAL: spence

(in reply to Belce)

Does Canada still have an Army? (couldn't resist)

The best defense is absence of enemies[;)].

Actually Osama Bin laden has put Canada on enemy list but he want to destroy USA first. The milleium bomber was based in Canda. A US immigration officer 50, miles from Testarosa home, prevented it. In the 1980s Pierre Trudeau our (PM) wanted nuclear disarmament and appeasement of the Iron curtain, things did not work out in that case. During WWII Pierre a draft dodger drove around Montreal on a motorcycle with his Nazi helmet. He did visit and praise Communist China a few years later. But he did call in marital law when 2 kidnapping occurred in Quebec. In the 1980s The Canadian governement did not want to deport the Skih bomber, who later blew up an Air India 747, becuase India was not part of the British Empire (commonwealth). In 1990s The Canadian government sent their fleet to chase after 2 Portuguese fishing ship about 200 miles off the Newfoundland coast.