...language Is Not The Frosting, It's The

The Trick Is This: Keep Your Eye On The Ball. Even When You Can't See The Ball.

If Little Else, The Brain Is An Educational Toy.

The One Thing Emphasized In Any Creative Writing Course Is 'write What You Know,' And That Automatically Drives A Wooden Stake Through The Heart Of Imagination. If They Really Understood The Mysterious Process Of Creating Fiction, They Would Say, 'you Can Write About Anything You Can Imagine.'

The Brutal Truth Is, We're Scarcely 'educating' Children At All. Even If You Overlook The Guilt, Fear, Bigotry, And Dangerous Anti-intellectual Flapdoodle Being Funneled Into Young Brains By Schools On The Religious Right, What We're Doing Is Training Kids To Be Cogs In The Wheels Of Commerce.

Sometimes One Gets The Feeling That Life Still Thinks It's Living In Paris In The '30s.