For me, I think I'd love to teach creative writing and grammar, but I'd love to teach ged level topics.
When I worked in mental health, I did that a lot and it was really good for me to teach and help people who never had someone to work with them. I created a creative writing group at the mental health facility I worked at. They'd share their work during an open mic or even at talent shows.
I'd transcribe their writing when they couldn't spell and help them put their sentences together. I helped them write to their case workers and advocate for their needs.
I think I'd love to be able to do that for everyone. If full communism happens, that's what I would love to do every day for the rest of my life.
What about the rest of you? Is there something you'd be able to talk about enough as a teacher? It doesn't have to be something like literal education. I know people around here really know theory, or genres of music or games, or history. What would you want to share with the world?
I would love to teach people electrical/electronic and mechanical repair skills. It's very hard without things to repair and I don't think it's possible except in person, hands on.
I've been thinking about teaching people about simple homesteading. Canning, making bread, how to identify usable firewood and chainsaw maintenance, light construction, working on cars/small engines... Stuff like that
I want to try it out on friends first and see how I feel
Numerical Methods and Numerical Optimization, as a joke.
But seriously, if anyone has questions or problems about that... I'd like to help you out.
Soil science.
By the end of high school most people have heard of sand and clay, and know that you can make glass with one and pots with the other. They're lucky if they have been taught by that point what sedimentary rock and organic matter are. Maybe they'll be able to tell you that the city of Troy was destroyed and rebuilt several times, turning into a bigger mound in the process, but we are really quite ignorant of the blanket of fragments that we rely on, directly or indirectly, for almost everything. I was doing a unit project in a science class when I realized I knew nothing about "dirt" and how it worked.
The class would involve smashing rocks, using ice to deform and break stuff, screening soil, doing sedimentation and other soil tests, river simulations, looking at stuff under a microscope, composting, and growing plants.
I wouldn't want to teach so much, but I'd love to have a study group dedicated to the day to day functioning of prefigurative projects, stuff like land defenses, autonomous territories, free schools, buy nothing groups, seed libraries, etc. As well as the more utopian aspects of AES, like the Venezuelan communes, the soviet school system, etc. Hell, I'm even interested in radical social reforms within capitalist states like the Italian preschool system.
Feel like all I'd be able to do is teach how to draw lol, I had an anatomy teacher who always said anyone can draw. And then I saw it with my own eyes, some classmates who could bearly draw a stick figure went on to being able to make some decent skeletons by the end of 9 weeks ish. I'd like to spread the knowledge and encourage others too. The ability to draw can be taught.
Mathematics. I really enjoyed teaching math. I found that those willing to engage in my classes, even if they do not like math, gained some appreciation for the structure of mathematical systems, and found joy in discovering the patterns that emerge.
Maths is cool and good. Especially number theory and all the related things.
Basic media analysis. If I had unlimited freedom I'd do it teaching Utena, but more likely I'd do a few different books or movies
I could probably teach high school and possibly undergrad physics reasonably well.
physics and/or maths are my favourite subjects
i would also like to ramble about pro wrestling to people, but that's less educational
