tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post1542163367168573777..comments2023-11-22T09:11:01.567+00:00Comments on George Szirtes: Pootergeek's* BaneGeorge Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08889600788146987089noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-3170270673862988782008-09-22T07:56:00.000+01:002008-09-22T07:56:00.000+01:00Ah well, stupidity. Never rule out stupidity. Stup...Ah well, stupidity. Never rule out stupidity. Stupid Cupid. Didn't the kid wear a blindfold?<BR/><BR/>People may not start out stupid. Stupidity can suddenly overtake them. They go round in a stupor.<BR/><BR/>It's the context that makes it dangerous stupidity. Romance is generally more dangerous than lust, I suspect. Lust has channels. Romance is fixed on its target.<BR/><BR/>In the meantime there's always legislation, paranoia and hatred. And, on the other side, what they used to call cupidity as combined with romance.<BR/><BR/>And of course there is sense and responsibility.<BR/><BR>George Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08889600788146987089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-59464930989446475812008-09-21T23:38:00.000+01:002008-09-21T23:38:00.000+01:00the trick is not to do anything about it.This is t...<I>the trick is not to do anything about it.</I><BR/><BR/>This is the money quote. How can anyone not understand this? The trick is to understand that your senior pupils - whom nature decrees you may occasionally find attractive, as you say - fancy you not despite you're their teacher but <I>because of it.</I> Anyone who doesn't get this is too stupid to be a teacher; anyone who does get it but doesn't care is too bad to be a teacher - end of story. I suspect it's the former who make up the bulk of the pupil-shagging fraternity.Shuggyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00298179140317536572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-47336488617909482342008-09-21T21:05:00.000+01:002008-09-21T21:05:00.000+01:00I have known some - indeed know some - who have ma...I have known some - indeed know some - who have married their students and lived happily ever after till now at least. <BR/><BR/>Yes, the pay-off. <BR/><BR/>It is the nature of lines to be, on the whole, thin. The trick is to see them even on a foggy night. That's the bit that comes with practice, I think.George Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08889600788146987089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-68650102061089695082008-09-21T16:58:00.000+01:002008-09-21T16:58:00.000+01:00For me, the trick was to learn to understand that ...For me, the trick was to learn to understand that the teacher-student relationship can be highly charged, but that the charge in such a relationship can be realized differently than the charge of romance. <BR/><BR/>Further, it OUGHT to be realized differently, both because of the various contracts you discuss and because the payoff of the "pedagogical" charge is so great. Not only because it can last longer than the "romantic" charge can, but because you can have a whole bunch of such relationships and not be considered polygamous or adulterous! :-)Andrew Shieldshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02804655739574694901noreply@blogger.com