“Handwritten corrections on typed work (stuff crossed out, added, words respelled) are not only accepted but encouraged, since they’re usually signs of sedulous proofreading. Better right than neat (as long as it’s readable).”
David Foster Wallace
more infosource: Syllabus for David Foster Wallace’s class “English 102-Literary Analysis: Prose Fiction Fall ’94,” Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin; link here
category: correction, edit, learning, rules, syllabus, teaching
medium: syllabus
“Learning doesn’t happen behind walls.”
Qasim Davis
more infosource: “5 Years After Katrina, Teacher Tills Soil of Lower 9th Ward,” by Charles Wilson, The New York Times, January 15, 2011.
category: education, experience, farm, learning
medium: newspaper article
“History requires a world of time and bitter hard work when your ‘education’ is no further advanced than the cat’s; when you are merely stuffing yourself with a mixed-up mess of empty names and random incidents and elusive dates, which no one teaches you how to interpret, and which, uninterpreted, pay you not a farthing’s value for your waste of time.”
Mark Twain
more infosource: Following the Equator (New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1903), 301.
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category: education, history, interpretation, learning
medium: nonfiction
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