That, in itself, is a nation bent on suicide. . . . We'll certainly need more prisons if our students won't read books. And if our legislators don't send our students books to read, they themselves should be imprisoned. Hopefully your editorial will receive more illuminating responses and experiences of specific literature with which to inspire your students. Perhaps you can use mine to exemplify the consequence of failure and point out how easy it is to slide into submoronic idiocy.
Language is the crux of communication.
Endeavor to persevere. I salute you. 1 I began to sit with students, asking more and telling less, all the while filling up with the same joy and excitement that I had witnessed in Flossie Lewis when I watched her teach. I think that we were learning how to learn and giving one another permission to do so in that class. One lasting outcome of that class has been my need to have some new thing that I am determined to learn or to do better every year.