Interesting quote: If anything I was more convinced that I didn’t want to teach. I saw it as a trap for bright kids. Also, I had developed the idea that there’s something fundamentally wrong if the teacher’s previous job is student. It’s incestuous. There has to be some real world in there somewhere and often there isn’t for teachers and professors. That weakens what is being taught and it weakens the credibility of the teacher so the effectiveness of transmission of information to students is also worse.