Reason eight gajillion why I want to teach

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I've been reading all these books published in the 1950s and 60s for a paper on how, while academics were all discussing the finer points of managing an integrated classroom, the south had a lot of trouble with, y'know, the basic desegregation part of an integrated classroom. And in a book called The Teacher and Integration, I came across the following passage:

Teachers handle the use of bad language in various ways. Jimmy, in the kindergarten, was playing with a toy. Suddenly he ripped out an oath, "You blank......."

The teacher, hearing it, said, "Jimmy, what does that mean?"

The child looked up and, smiling sweetly, said, "It means the car won't start."

Oh. Jimmy, you're probably my grandfather's age by now, but just so you know, I love you.