Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is part of the work of education to have substantive relationships with your students.
It's very hard to remain a student in life.
There's something melancholy about professors because they're chronically abandoned. They form these lovely relationships with students and then the students leave and the professors stay the same. It's like they're chronically abandoned.
Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.
Instead, most colleges are studies in obsolescence.
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
Many of the differences that cause students to be excluded in school are actually the same qualities or skills that other people are going to admire, respect or value about that person in adulthood.
All relationships are a learning experience, even ones you continue to be in. If you don't see them as that, then that's a problem.
Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.
I always think the relationship between a teacher and a student should be short and maybe violent. You don't need to spend years together. All you need is an explosion: you are the material to explode; the teacher is the detonator.