/lit/ - Literature

>>19422968
The responses in this thread definitely get to some of the issues. Not all kids really know what they want to do with their lives at that age. The ones getting English or philosophy degrees are therefore usually just the ones who decided to coast through life because, “I don’t really know what I want to do after graduating but these classes are easier and my parents are paying for it.” They don’t really have an incentive to be super-competitive and care much because as long as they pass, life is still fine. Anyone who wants to go for a PhD in it quickly finds out that that’s insane (why such a huge amount drop out of grad school), maybe they’ll be one of your few golden students but with the grad school crisis and the way the economy is heading, you’ll see less and less of those star students unless it’s some rare person with the mixture of the independent wealth/financial support and the intelligence and passion to go for it without worrying what happens next.

The terrible dilemma of becoming a professor or a teacher is that you’ll almost always be the one who was different from other students in class because you actually cared. While actually caring so much, you became insensitive to and different from those who don’t care. Then, when you get to the top of the hierarchy you were once cheerfully at the bottom of, all the people who don’t care as much as you did and do are suddenly there in one annoying mass before you with their juvenile apathy to your blood, sweat, and tears. I’m not even a professor or teacher myself but I’m just putting myself in your shoes and can imagine what’s in it. Sorry OP, should’ve considered the stakes in it and that what you pursued out of passion could eventually become rather soul-crushing.

>>17311581
Here anon, remember this whenever you are worried about the jews.