The Truthful Teachers

"Education is what remains afterwards 1 forgets what 1 has learned inwards school." -Albert Einstein

 Ah yes, there's e'er some goddamn appreciation solar daytime or calendar week or calendar month that nosotros are supposed to hold out celebrating.  This is "Teacher Appreciation Week".  I couldn't intend of whatever traditional teachers worthy of such, quite the opposite, virtually of the "educators" I encountered during my schoolhouse years are remembered with disdain.  Boring, didactic, prison theatre guard pedants, regurgitators of trite bullshit, much wrong together with colored past times personal biases, they were difficult to tolerate, allow lone appreciate.  So fuck them.  

The ones who actually taught me never had masters degrees or certificates together with would scoff at existence idea of every bit "teacher".  They were racers, tuners, mechanics, artists, rejects together with rednecks, punks, misfits, those Glen E. Friedman would telephone phone "Fuck You Heroes".  Many humble, unsung, unappreciated, unrecognized giants living alongside mere mortals, with quiet, difficult won wisdom, kept or together with thence the vest, the form that yous volition non notice inwards the hallowed halls of ivy leaguedom.  Men whose exclusively tenure exists inwards the indelible grade they acquire out on your soul.

The truthful teachers.  Let us heighten a middle finger high inwards the exclusively form of tribute they would appreciate.  Thank you.  And fuck yous too.         

One of my favorite FYH's together with "teachers" Phil Lee.  RIP.

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