Post of Tedium:
What I Learned as a
Substitute Teacher.
ne frigid blend of a morning, while I was in preparing to be a substitute instructor, I saw a course book that was being utilized as a part of an eleventh grade English class. The class was concentrating on introspective philosophy, and the understudies were required to peruse extracts from a paper called "Nature," by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson was an unmethodical essayist with low, puffy sideburns who jumped at the chance to work himself up into passages of euphoria. When it came time for him to compose an article or give an address — about nature, say, or self-reliance — he searched through his voluminous diaries and hauled out decision bits that were pretty much on subject, and he stuck them together with some connective exposition. Case in point, in "Nature," Emerson composes: "Remaining on the uncovered ground, — my head showered by the happy air, and inspired into limitless space, — all mean self love vanishes. I turn into a straightforward eye-ball."
In the reading material, by this entry, there was a brief task imprinted in the edge. It said: "Survey the components of introspective philosophy recorded on Page 369. Which part of visionary believed is reflected in Lines 12-19? Clarify your answer."
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