Learning as lift off
WritingRedux celebrates language that is alive and pulsating. Â It celebrates the joys and rewards of reading and writing. Â What...
On being learned
Dorothea is the more studious of two sisters and marries an older bookish chap, to the consternation of her relatives....
Ambition and acting
‘I like big parts, I like talking a lot and I like using complicated language.’ Â
This marvelous...
Learning to write
How do you learn to write? My belief is that if fine writing comes from you, mostly it is due to...
System in everything
A curious exchange between Anna Sergeyevna and Bazarov in Turgenev's Fathers and Sons. Somehow, Anna's crisp response chills the romance...
Scribbles in the sand
In Couto's superb novel, a disturbed father tries to isolate his sons from life and learning by taking them to...
Learning by heart
Listening time: 10 minutes.Â
It's been playing on my mind, the fact that recently I haven't learned any...
A private anthology
Although this is a public domain website, it is also a 'private anthology', and wonderful will be the day when...
The honey of knowledge
This is from the first of a trilogy of memoirs by Maxim Gorky (1868-1936), whose life began in Tsarist Russia...
Unexpected ignorance, unexpected knowledge
Maggie Tulliver is a girl whose brightness and spirit are constantly curtailed and nearly crushed. Throughout her childhood she is...
A straight-cut ditch or a meandering brook
Thoreau's comment about education will resonate today with many teachers and students, but I am glad he included the word...
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