The Things You Can’t Teach
February 8, 2016TW Column by Steven Lewis
There is just something wrong with adults teaching kids how to be rockers.
There is just something wrong with adults teaching kids how to be rockers.
It’s a cautionary tale, but also a recognition of what it feels like to fall in love with teaching.
Another professor in the department where I teach asked if I considered myself a teacher who wrote or a writer who taught.
Don’t worry about the expectations you imagine others have; play with the mud you’ve found, like a child.
Where does the unpublished writer find the validation to go on writing?
She asked him not to, but she didn’t scream or fight.
I understood the blank stares and raw anguish when I asked those students about their homes.