How does an elderly cope with the seventeen-year old freshman students?

There is really truth to the saying that the bigger the age gap the harder it is to deal with each other. So here is this blogger who is teaching seventeen-year old freshman students and all she sees are blank stares.  Yet with some creative discussion that centers about love relationships as starting point before going into the deep discussion about the structure of English, glitters of enthusiasm  appear. This is the usual scenario in class sessions. this is also one big reason why this blogger cannot wait for 2015 when she finally "retires" and moves on to gardening, vermi composting and cooking.

Elderly blue: Truly, the students today have so many distractions to attend to, their attention span is just lagging behind. Yet, the young students always make the elderly teachers keep pace because teachers have to do better and allow the students to be just who they are - students whose future is limitless. When elderly teachers refuse to admit this disparity of perspectives then the class will be as boring as boring can be. . .

Elderly blow: There are great moments in every class session so dwell on these precious memories.Somehow, you have goose pimples when in the course of the class discussion, a seventeen year-old freshman stands  up and explains with depth and clarity a learning insight which surfaced in the course of the exchange of ideas. Ah, no wonder even an elderly teacher accepts with humility her rare role in this "aha" moment enough to have the energy to wait until 2015, her year of retirement.