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As I was saying,
I came late to teaching.
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And I found it artificial...
:21:21
the notion of
"I know, and you do not."
:21:25
I told you, I hated school.
:21:28
I hated teachers.
:21:29
I hated anyone who was
in a position of a boss...
:21:32
because I knew...
I didn't think, mind you...
:21:35
I knew I was going to fail.
:21:38
Late in life,
when I got out from under...
:21:40
when I worked my way out
of the need to fail...
:21:43
How do you do that?
:21:45
I'm going to tell you.
:21:47
You have to look
at what you are...
:21:49
and what you feel
and how you act.
:21:52
And finally, you have to look at
how you act...
:21:55
and say,
"If that's what I did...
:21:57
"that must be what
I think of myself."
:21:59
I don't understand.
:22:01
If I fail all the time...
:22:03
it must be that I think
of myself as a failure.
:22:06
If I don't want to think
of myself as a failure...
:22:09
perhaps I should begin
by succeeding now and again.
:22:12
Look. The tests, you see...
:22:15
which you encounter
in school...
:22:18
in college, in life...
:22:20
were designed for idiots
by idiots.
:22:24
There's no need to fail at them.
:22:26
They're not
a test of your worth.
:22:27
They are a test of
your ability...
:22:29
to retain and spout back
misinformation.
:22:31
Of course you fail them.
They're nonsense.
:22:34
No. No.
:22:37
Yes. They're garbage.
:22:39
They're a joke.
:22:41
How can you say that?
:22:42
Look at me.
:22:45
The tenure committee.
:22:47
The tenure committee
come to judge me.
:22:50
The bad tenure committee.
:22:52
The test. You see?
:22:54
They put me to the test.
:22:55
They had people
voting on me...
:22:57
I wouldn't
employ to wax my car.
:22:59
And yet I go before
the great tenure committee...