They actually pay me to do this!
Every time I substitute I learn something new. Prior to the start of my first period class I googled Tolstoy so I knew more detail about his background. I never knew that he was influential in the development of the pacifist doctrine of non-resistance. He was obsessed with the Sermon on the Mount and saw the command to "turn the other cheek" as justification for nonviolence and nonresistance. He wrote The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1893), titled after Luke’s Gospel in the New Testament. Tolstoy's writings were influential to both Gandhi and Martin Luther King. Who knew?
I hadn't known that Ambrose Bierce disappeared under mysterious circumstances in Mexico. The mystery was never solved.
I'm pretty lucky to learn something new every day and get paid for it!
Life is good!
3 comments:
How great that you can substitute when you feel like it and enjoy the experience!
I didn't know the Tolstoi details, but I did know about Bierce. However, I've never read anything by either of them even though I was an English major.
I read somewhere that the sermon on the mount is the best speech ever made.
I did some sub teaching and all I learned was how to duck as the little buggers threw stuff at me.lol
Life is good! Thank God someone invented Google.
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