tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31341356110251854.post1531279033707683518..comments2024-01-26T11:43:48.054-08:00Comments on Career Limiting Moves: Hey! Writers! Leave those teachers alone!Zachariah Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02241595894807722933noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31341356110251854.post-68144454013615525552007-12-13T09:30:00.000-08:002007-12-13T09:30:00.000-08:00This having been said, I don't see any reason why ...<I>This having been said, I don't see any reason why a Canadian teacher should be unable to find CanLit to draw from.</I><BR/><BR/>Agreed. Mostly. But keep in mind also that not all of our teachers are from here either. And what we're talking about--what Jean Baird and John Oliver are promoting--isn't the encouragement of teachers to teach Canadian books. It's legislating them to do so. Zachariah Wellshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02241595894807722933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31341356110251854.post-73533004013258660302007-12-13T09:18:00.000-08:002007-12-13T09:18:00.000-08:00Yes, I agree with Terry. And you, mostly. And I wa...Yes, I agree with Terry. And you, mostly. And I wasn't defending John's position. My point is simple (and complex, what else is new?) The teaching of literature should strive to achieve three things (really two things):<BR/> <BR/>1. A love of reading and learning.<BR/>2. A love of life (which means the same as a love of reading/learning.) <BR/>3. The skill of reading/thinking.<BR/><BR/>It's the B. Glen Rotchinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05815057617780242871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31341356110251854.post-40060753137022496482007-12-13T07:51:00.000-08:002007-12-13T07:51:00.000-08:00Cheap shots he left himself wide open for. Do you ...Cheap shots he left himself wide open for. Do you think that his little ode to his Canadian education doesn't ring hollow? It's the sort of thing one expects to hear from someone preaching to the converted, pat and lacklustre. I'm sure he didn't expect anyone to visit the Facebook page who doesn't agree with his position already. 'Cause shucks, who wouldn't want to support Canadian writers. Not Zachariah Wellshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02241595894807722933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31341356110251854.post-19944665151914870492007-12-13T05:51:00.000-08:002007-12-13T05:51:00.000-08:00Zach, you do take a couple of cheap shots at John ...Zach, you do take a couple of cheap shots at John Oliver. And your pronouncement on why people read literature is a bit rich. People read for a million and one reasons including, to see their own personal experiences reflected back at them, and also to escape their dreary lives, and to put their minds at ease, and to have something to talk about with friends, and to be entertained, and to B. Glen Rotchinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05815057617780242871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31341356110251854.post-49189374525514709562007-12-12T23:36:00.000-08:002007-12-12T23:36:00.000-08:00John, I devoted a few sarcastic sentences to a few...John, I devoted a few sarcastic sentences to a few lines of very dull, vague, hackneyed bureaubabble prose. You can construe that as an attack if you like, but I call it a criticism. As you say, I don't know you, so why on earth would I attack you?<BR/><BR/>I said absolutely nothing about a one-canuck-book rule "destroying and limiting the imaginations of our young," John. The education system Zachariah Wellshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02241595894807722933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31341356110251854.post-55678462728243864402007-12-12T22:28:00.000-08:002007-12-12T22:28:00.000-08:00Well Zach: you sure are disrespectful. For those w...Well Zach: you sure are disrespectful. For those who have not read his blog, Zach has devoted a lot of space to attacking me. I have never met Zach and so am left scratching my head. Zach, you have no idea what I've read, make attributions about my character that you could not possibly justify, and instruct me to list what I have read on my brief admittedly feel-good post. You have not read Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com