Teaching

“The teacher has little assurance that what she has attempted to teach has been learned by you, the student. Words exchanged in the classroom are often temporary, usually unsatisfactory, and almost never heard by everyone in the same way at the same time. It no longer matters if this is natural, expedient, or fair anymore; this is how it is. However, writing is final, fixed and indicative of your life as you see it now. It is a photograph of your mind you should keep. And unlike the spontaneous snapshots of you that you dislike and throw away in a folder in a dark closet somewhere, your writing can be made, through diligent editing, into something of which you are proud. Think about it. You are far more intelligent and sensitive now than you perhaps realize.”

Alex Ammerman

University of Washington:

University of Oxford: