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12.10.79
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..... apart from just the Alternative Course
there are lots of interesting lectures and things
going on in the normal course which I'm interested
in
this whole week I've been busy from
9:00 to 5:00.
When I was at University, it was
you didn’t feel like you had to go home and relax
so much, I really feel the need to go home and
unwind a bit and then you feel that you’ve got
to start reading again.
I think I've worked a lot harder than I
would if it was a normal lecture course, because
I could see that despite the quarrels we’ve had
about the relevance of the seminars, I can see
that there ought to be some kind of relevance
and so I’ve been tending to work towards that.
Well the relationship between what you do
in school and what you do in seminars is something
that is going to build up gradually ...
Date 12.10.79
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I really enjoyed it (Tuesday) and really
look forward to next week.
It was really good
to get going in something practical ..... I’ve
noticed that people (the people I’m thinking
of weren’t from our course) see
to be generating
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this fear
horror, dread of teaching practice
and it's like exams, it’s like a disease,
person says it and then it seems to be
one
escalating, I'm really glad that we've started
off right at the beginning.
..... the other students are having to
go to lectures ..... it’s almost a false situation
in comparison to what they consider to be the
real part of the course which is not in the
Institute at all.
I can imagine it building up
frenzy of fear.
into a real
I don't feel it myself because I've taught
already but (people are) organizing things to
happen just before teaching practice.
..... at a dance society meeting they
said we'll have to fit this ballet in before
teaching practice and I said, well I hope all
social life isn't going to stop during teaching
practice because if it is I'm not going to be
a teacher.