Tawny's review
Radical Reflections: Passionate Opinions on Teaching, Learning, and Living
by Mem Fox
Tawny's review
Radical Reflections: Passionate Opinions on Teaching, Learning, and Living by Mem Fox
Tawny's review
rating:
bookshelves:
literacy
Favorite lines:
1. "Giving unreal writing activities to our students is about as useful as giving occupational therapy for stroke victims to people who are in perfect health."
2. "My writing, I'm realizing, nearly always has the socially interactive purpose of either creating relationships or ensuring that established relationships continue."
3. "The view that writing might be fun, or amusing, or relaxing is not, I imagine, widely held, and we teachers must be to blame for that."
4. "Literature provides essential sustenance for the soul: it is of life and about life, and classrooms lacking in literature are classrooms lacking in soul."
1. "Giving unreal writing activities to our students is about as useful as giving occupational therapy for stroke victims to people who are in perfect health."
2. "My writing, I'm realizing, nearly always has the socially interactive purpose of either creating relationships or ensuring that established relationships continue."
3. "The view that writing might be fun, or amusing, or relaxing is not, I imagine, widely held, and we teachers must be to blame for that."
4. "Literature provides essential sustenance for the soul: it is of life and about life, and classrooms lacking in literature are classrooms lacking in soul."
