Several in my family keep urging me to give up truck driving and get a Masters in Education. I look at the curriculum required and back away. I did an introduction to teaching English as a second language at UBC (Vancouver). The texts were theoretical nonsense, useless in the real world. A diversity expert showed up to teach us mature adults about racism. I assumed it would be about how to deal with racism on the part of the mostly wealthy immigrant Asian students. No, we were lectured about the racism of “blackboard,” and the expression “white as the driven snow.” I regret that I was too polite (I’d been in Canada too long) to point out that the word was “pure,” and made sense with no racial content. I had been completing a writing program and was spoiled by good instructors who demanded good writing and had no interest in indoctrination. Anyway, I continue to put off the expensive ordeal of returning to school so I can enter this strange make believe world. Truck driving is just too easy in comparison.
