tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529212130092758272.post7927599349028537486..comments2024-03-13T16:06:11.396-05:00Comments on the anti-soma: Argh. Papers. Students. Comp teachers other than me.Heroditus Huxleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11049569750742829144noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529212130092758272.post-22832430116526428242011-07-04T13:25:37.523-05:002011-07-04T13:25:37.523-05:00Dude, you don't have to read books to read a l...Dude, you don't have to read books to read a lot. And I *know* you read a lot. It just all happens to be news articles and blog posts. <br /><br />It isn't just reading a lot that makes a good writer--you also have to write. A lot. And most people do as little of both as they can get away with.<br /><br />Sadly, that includes those who are supposed to teach reading and writing to impressionable young minds...which is just one more reason I plan to homeschool my kids.<br /><br />(My son already can point to about a third of the alphabet's letters and loves books and reading--and he's only 2 2/3 years old.)Heroditus Huxleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11049569750742829144noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529212130092758272.post-18198049381876035122011-07-04T12:38:23.664-05:002011-07-04T12:38:23.664-05:00I guess I am a rare one!
I don't read 'bo...I guess I am a rare one!<br /><br />I don't read 'books'!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529212130092758272.post-23253936952682401912011-07-04T12:23:05.104-05:002011-07-04T12:23:05.104-05:00It takes a lot of reading to be a half-decent writ...It takes a lot of reading to be a half-decent writer, and you have to wonder what percentage of people read much of anything except text messages?<br /><br />Looking back, I can say that with the exception of maybe a double handful of teachers over the course of my meager 12.33 years in the educational system, most everything I know was learned despite school, not because of it...Tamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529212130092758272.post-19788206539428587082011-07-04T07:29:33.722-05:002011-07-04T07:29:33.722-05:00There are not enough educators who really care abo...There are not enough educators who really care about what they are doing.....after they obtain tenure, it gets worse.<br /><br />I have no idea WHY in grammar school I just started writing "stuff!"<br /><br />About that time my aunt (a news reporter) gave me her Royal typewriter (I still have it)--been writing stuff ever since.<br /><br />In retrospect, computers/word processors have made it so much easier AND FASTER to write (creative or otherwise), I wish I would have one way back when!<br /><br />I don't want to sound 'corny', BUT GOOD JOB, HOLLIE!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com