Teachers and Authors, Please Read This!

[torakiyoshi]

If you are a teacher or author, or ever have been, or are even trained as such (or just love the deep, stirring power of the written word), whether your teaching job is or was in a school or at home, you will want to read this. It's long, but so rewarding. This writer really gets it.

The Difficulty is the Point: Teaching Spoon-Fed Students how to

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Learning the Lessons

[blacktigr]

I seem to have learned the lessons she was trying to teach in elementary school. I was in a rigorously structured academic course of teachings that always wanted us to know why the writer was writing.

Never knew why it mattered until much later.

Thanks for the insight into what you're trying to do.

Re: Learning the Lessons

[torakiyoshi]

I think I slowly came into an awareness of these ideas, myself, rather than getting it from any one teacher. Though if I were to point, it would be to my favorite English teacher in High School. Everyone hated her because she made them work hard and took no nonsense. But I loved her for the high level of education we got from her, and the respect she gave us.