Teaching is a profession which is constantly made to sound more glamorous and fulfilling than it ever is in reality. Inspiring young people to learn Great Things seems like a noble vocation, but in practice, too many teachers are left battling the double demons of boredom and disdain in their students. “In time I would learn that language and literature wouldst sucketh forever and that life at home (wherever that was this week) sucked like a veritable vortex… I wanted to engage them in critical thinking, but surely nothing could suck more than that, and this was a shame, because I’d gone back to school as an old bag just to get a credential to teach it.”