Transcendentalism Strikes Again

[victoriana]

It's time for more excerpts from my students' essays. I'm running behind on grading, which is why these haven't made it here, like, a month ago. (Sorry, it's been a busy semester.) Anyway, from this year's Essays on Transcendentalism:

On Emerson's claim that "envy is ignorance" -

"Ignorance means you are rude and non-mannered. Things like

Comments

[pandagenma]

These posts always end up being the comedic high point of my day.

[victoriana]

Awww, what a cute little hedgepig! He probably writes better sentences than half my 11th graders.

[falls2climb]

This is when I simultaneously adore being a teacher and begin to worry about the fate of society.

[lizthefrench]

These posts never fail to make me giggle.

[leiacat]

I bet the what-the-hell-word-was-she-trying-for was meant to be "obnoxious".

[victoriana]

That does seem more likely than "pugnacious", which was the only other guess Charles (my brother) and I had as we tried to figure it out.

[woodburner]

Oh man, these always have me in absolute stitches. (Upnatious may not be a word, but it should be! It has such a great sound!)