Wishing students were more proactive

I enjoy teaching. I would like to spend the rest of my life teaching in some form or another. However, I do not want to babysit. The reason I didn't get a degree in education was that I didn't want to deal with issues that arise when you teach younger people. The issue is that many teachers in college treat their adult students as if they were children. I get coddled students who expect me to remind them when things are due and to hold their hand as we enter the journey of them doing nothing and me presenting them a service. I feel like there needs to be a standard which pushes students rather than helping them to fail.

I wish my students would come to me more often with issues dealing with class or their general life. Everyone should feel comfortable to come to a prof and ask them for help. I think the problem is that now that we have the internet, no one expects to have to deal with someone at a face to face level. WE can send an e-mail to someone in power without formatting it or checking it for spelling. Students do not know how to play the game anymore because they think that they own it. Because some of them pay for their education, they look at it as a service rather than a privilege. Whatever views they do have, this is not going to get them very far in terms of getting help. Students need to be taught how to deal with profs and how to interact at the college level.