tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35367059.post339436857935113059..comments2023-09-07T02:42:54.042-07:00Comments on kellogg bloggin': When Moving Up the Ladder is Stepping DownUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35367059.post-35270193649303596392006-12-03T20:58:00.000-08:002006-12-03T20:58:00.000-08:00I use to say, it was better to be a big fish in a ...I use to say, it was better to be a big fish in a small pond, than to be a little fish in a big pond, when people asked why I didn't go back to school to be come a nurse. <br />I did my job well. I felt comfortable where I was. And I felt I was needed where I was. When you step up, it seems the games begin.. and I don't like games, I like life as it is.Word Tosserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03519547102435672497noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35367059.post-68430971907641092222006-12-01T20:28:00.000-08:002006-12-01T20:28:00.000-08:00the irony, of course, in feeling most at home teac...the irony, of course, in feeling most at home teaching college, is that the very students that you teach are themselves undergoing the same tension that you describe--they, too, feel comfortable in some way--they are happy with their old identities--or they were before they come to college. and yet they come to lane precisely to undergo that transformation--my father calls it the "great leap"--from where their family always has been to a new, unknown place where the educated live--a place, you might say, of prestige. and so i was reminded in reading your blog, that prestige is really a relation, and not an absolute. to those students you love to teach and yet feel no prestige in teaching, you are prestigious....i suspect, too, that your dad felt a kind of prestige among his compadres....the prestige of being "known" in a deep way, and being respected.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35367059.post-52952797476461698172006-12-01T20:07:00.000-08:002006-12-01T20:07:00.000-08:00Wait a minut. Movin' up is steppin' down. Up is ...Wait a minut. Movin' up is steppin' down. Up is down. Up. Down. <br /><br />I don't know. <br /><br />Back in August, I was talkin' to a friend of mine by the name a Wilson. He said the kinda thing you're talkin' 'bout with you and yer dad is like Fences. I got me lotsa friends. :)<br /><br />I don't think I understand that neither.<br /><br />Fer me, goin' up the ladder is how how I got all my friends. Rummy said, run fer Prez an' I'll be yer friend. Uncle Dick said, run fer Prez an' I'll be yer friend. Wolfie said, run fer Prez an' I'll be yer friend.Dubyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08611994204097298764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35367059.post-11113487839169010062006-12-01T09:00:00.000-08:002006-12-01T09:00:00.000-08:00I think the community college system is among the ...I think the community college system is among the most prestigious of American academic institutions. The work it does is vitally important to the American economy and to its students. By and large, each and every one of them want to be there. By what other measure should one gauge value?JBellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06058881790600891805noreply@blogger.com