I retired from teaching two years ago.  I still know many of the teachers at my former school.  And I occasionally see some of them in and about town at various meetings, grocery stores, restaurants and the like.  Without exception, they have all told me that I left none too soon.  Now I understand that teachers can be a complaining lot and that, by virtue of what they do, they almost always think they are in the right.  Doctors, lawyers, and politicians probably think the same thing.  But between “political correctness” and “New Math” and new evaluation tools, both for students and teachers, I really don’t know how teachers actually find the time to teach with all the pre-planning, documentation and grading that they have to do.

Apparently the old ways of learning were not adequate and we are told that children learn differently now.  Tell that to the geniuses and philosophers who learned the…