my experience of teaching is that individual or small group tutoring is vastly different from teaching at either the high school or college levels. ditto for teaching self-motivated adults, which presumably is a reasonable definition of "aspiring citizen". :-)
i would encourage you to teach a class that is for middleschool or high school aged kids, or even college kids, and see what it's like for you. possibly teach a sunday school class at your church for a year?? that would be much closer to what "teaching career" is really like.
however, let me say, too, that i think you would make a wonderful teacher. and why couldn't you teach linguistics, hmmm??? combine your passions into what works for you!
personally, i used to love teaching, but now you couldn't get me into a classroom with the proverbial ten-foot-pole -- with the exception of teaching self-motivated adults.
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i would encourage you to teach a class that is for middleschool or high school aged kids, or even college kids, and see what it's like for you. possibly teach a sunday school class at your church for a year?? that would be much closer to what "teaching career" is really like.
however, let me say, too, that i think you would make a wonderful teacher. and why couldn't you teach linguistics, hmmm??? combine your passions into what works for you!
personally, i used to love teaching, but now you couldn't get me into a classroom with the proverbial ten-foot-pole -- with the exception of teaching self-motivated adults.
hugs and good luck with this!