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Ask yourself what they need to get on in life, the bare minimum (like filling in a job application), and concentrate on that.

telling the truth is the most important thing, much more important than the grammar

I would often ask them to describe operations that they take for granted. Ask a girl to write a paragraph on how she braids her sister’s hair. Ask a boy to explain a sports rule. These are just basic starting points, where students learn to write on paper what they might tell a friend. It keeps it concrete. If you ask a kid to write on “My Favorite Movie,” you’re opening the door to subjectivity, and hence to a flood of clichés

See, then say

A good reader digging into a good book is wonderful. Musical

Reading good fiction is like making the jump from masturbation to sex

Good teachers can be trained, if they really want to learn (some are pretty lazy). Great teachers, like Socrates, are born

What about teaching? Craft, or art?King: It’s both. The best teachers are artists