{"id":137,"date":"2012-02-28T15:57:52","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T21:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/?p=137"},"modified":"2012-02-28T15:59:30","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T21:59:30","slug":"melanchthon-and-the-misery-of-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2012\/02\/28\/melanchthon-and-the-misery-of-teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Misery loves company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;See how a teacher&#8217;s task, to my discomfort, is many sided.\u00a0 Never, unless compelled by a teacher, does a boy take a book into his hands.\u00a0 When he receives it, his eyes and mind wander off.\u00a0 A teacher explains something, presently sleep creeps up on the spoilt boy, and carefree he sleeps on one of his ears, while the teacher shatters himself by teaching.&#8221; Philip Melanchthon, &#8220;A Speech Concerning the Miseries of Teachers,&#8221; cited by Thomas Korcok, <em>Lutheran Education: From Wittenberg to the Future<\/em> (St Louis 2011), p. 1.<\/p>\n<p>What a comforting quote for any modern teacher or professor to read!\u00a0 Philip Melanchthon, &#8220;the teacher of Germany&#8221; and Martin Luther&#8217;s colleague, experienced what every teacher has experienced, that is, <strong>student apathy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;See how a teacher&#8217;s task, to my discomfort, is many sided.\u00a0 Never, unless compelled by a teacher, does a boy take a book into his hands.\u00a0 When he receives it, his eyes and mind wander off.\u00a0 A teacher explains something, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2012\/02\/28\/melanchthon-and-the-misery-of-teaching\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,21,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philip-melanchthon","category-reading","category-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}