COLLEGE TEACHING IS ACTING. There are seventeen useful theses (Cold Spring Shops practices at least eleven of them) nailed to Newmark's Door this day. The concluding observation is salient, even if an editor might gripe about him burying the lede.

When I started teaching I thought that I was an educator who, if things went well, would at least occasionally entertain. Today I think I'm an entertainer who, if things go well, at least occasionally educates. I think the switch has made me more effective, and I'm pretty sure it's made me happier.

Indeed.