Loving the Liars

Harsh title, but Loving the Liars is a great blog posting about one professor's discussion of why it hurts when students lie, or cheat, or ... the list goes on and on.

You know, we are often reminded by our students how much power we have over them, but we really do give so much back to them--we lay our hearts in their little fingers every time we assign a paper, and have them broken dozens of tiny ways, and mended in another dozen.

For God's sake, we didn't go into this for the money. We went into it because we love it--we love the material, and at our best we love them--maybe not individually, but collectively. And sometimes, just like all the people we love do, they betray us, in little ways and big ways.

... And I want to tell my students, yes, dammit, it makes me mad. It makes me mad be unrequited love always makes us mad.