cuddlefish

Yeah, adult education classes definitely tend to have more mellow teachers. The teachers are their b/c they want the money, not to actuate some lifelong yearning to inspire tender young minds. It's all business to them, so they treat the students like responsible adults and don't belittle them or deliberately make them feel bad. It's a very refreshingly professional relationship. There's no feeling of "I'm better than you are" when you have 300 bewildered 18 yr-old freshmen in a giant lecture hall listening to a 60 yr-oldtenured professor try to explain why a nitrogen triple bond makes federal buildings collapse.