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Why I Quit Teaching

by Michael Callaghan

Schools of education teaching nothing; empty courses; mercenary teachers; indifferent students: here are some of the reasons why a would-be teacher abandoned his chosen work

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My experience in teaching is limited; however, in the course of the past eighteen months I taught a full academic year in a high school and a summer session in college. Now I have left the field of teaching forever.

The reason why I have decided to switch careers is not, as most teachers would have you believe, financial. The pay in teaching is generally very goodโ€”excellent for a beginner, tremendous for the run-of-the-mill teacher.

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