My one Dutch friend was called up by that one Iowa college he had worked for before like a week before classes started to see if he could teach an undergrad course on ancient mexican religions, something he knows nothing about, and so I wrote him to ask how that shit was going, and I heard back from him today:
I know how to pronounce Huitzilopochtli and Quetzalcoatl better than they can, and I only had to answer once "I don't know" even though I don't know anything. Students are happy as long as they are entertained, so I give them lots of articles on human sacrifice.
I really admire people who take on a course about which they know absolutely nothing. Academics get so defensive about areas where they're weak, that they oftentimes refuse to engage or learn.
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