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Yet, we will stand firm! By: Mark Morgan on 9/11/2000; 6:15 PM We've been invaded! If you'll go to the Poetry index you'll find a whole bunch of new poems by new authors Chie Theresa Fujioka, |Dorothy Marie Koveal|,Andrew Paul McEwen, and Neal Michael Whitlow. They are all acquaintances of Matthew Patterson, and it's all good stuff. The poetry section is abruptly the largest part of the site! The most important insight was by Neal--Visions of Love is good because it came from him, not from him being forced to write it. Would that more English teachers would accept that. I wonder if there's any way they can get school credit for this stuff? It's really good. Go. Read. Enjoy.
Re: Yet, we will stand firm! By: Matthew Patterson on 9/11/2000; 9:58 PM Mark Morgan wrote: We've been invaded! If you'll go to the Poetry index you'll find a whole bunch of new poems by new authors Chie Theresa Fujioka, |Dorothy Marie Koveal|,Andrew Paul McEwen, and Neal Michael Whitlow. They are all acquaintances of Matthew Patterson, and it's all good stuff. The poetry section is abruptly the largest part of the site! The most important insight was by Neal--Visions of Love is good because it came from him, not from him being forced to write it. Would that more English teachers would accept that. I wonder if there's any way they can get school credit for this stuff? It's really good. Would that we could, would that we could. Unfortunately, most people just don't see it that way. For example, I've got a friend that's been working on a fantasy novel for the past three years. (190 pages of manuscript so far. Less than halfway done.) At the beginning of the school year last year, he mentioned it to our English teacher. Her response? A more polite version of, "So?" So many teachers these days are so caught up in doing what the Board of Education or the Headmaster or the Ruling Council (what I call the high-up people at our school) say is appropriate, and I think they lose sight of the fact that what makes us people is our individuality. Maybe if they tried more of a personal approach, developing individual strengths and strengthening individual weaknesses, kids these days might not hate writing so much. And I'm sure there's an essay in here somewhere... but someone else can write it. I'm beat.
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