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Alligator Wrestling aka Feeding Time at the Zoo Thoughts

This week has prompted me to reflect in depth on this wonderful vocation which some have been prone to call teaching. I have at times referred to it fondly as “alligator wrestling” and to lessons, particularly the last lesson Friday graveyard shift, as “feeding time at the zoo.”  This week a change has occurred: the alligators have multiplied unimaginably, joining forces with thrashing anacondas and...

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