Comments on: No teaching this year http://www.familymanlibrarian.com/2007/02/08/no-teaching-this-year/ A blog about family, technology, and libraries Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: <![CDATA[Mark]]> http://www.familymanlibrarian.com/2007/02/08/no-teaching-this-year/comment-page-1/#comment-1975 Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:52:15 +0000 http://familymanlibrarian.com/?p=542#comment-1975 Steve, you must do what is best for your family, first and foremost. There will always be (well, as long as we're alive) students here to be taught, who need the experience you can impart. Who knows, I could still be here, at least another year anyway. But your family needs you now. We can wait; they cannot. I speak from experience, sir. The Army has a motive in convincing us our mission is more important than our families. And whether or not we believe it, acting on it is the same thing. That (among other things) cost me mine. Steve, you must do what is best for your family, first and foremost. There will always be (well, as long as we’re alive) students here to be taught, who need the experience you can impart.

Who knows, I could still be here, at least another year anyway.

But your family needs you now. We can wait; they cannot. I speak from experience, sir. The Army has a motive in convincing us our mission is more important than our families. And whether or not we believe it, acting on it is the same thing. That (among other things) cost me mine.

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