tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2660089177097719300.post6180540467841824175..comments2024-03-29T04:15:38.341-07:00Comments on Writing About Writing (And Occasionally Some Writing): The Mailbox: Is Dead Poets Society a Shitty Movie or What?Chris Brecheenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07819138776404280633noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2660089177097719300.post-86256688227846395192019-07-23T08:12:38.731-07:002019-07-23T08:12:38.731-07:00"I had a teacher once who spent two class day..."I had a teacher once who spent two class days having us play a variation of a game of diplomacy to get us prepped for learning about WWI. If you had only tuned in for those two hours, you would have thought Mr. Ballard wasn't really teaching. In point of fact, it was one of the lessons I still remember to this day–some 25 years later about how the chains of alliances pulled others into the war."<br /><br />If a third of the children understood half of what is going on with this the world would be a different place.Toby Ramseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02613529651037577072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2660089177097719300.post-18860282170047807992015-12-20T02:01:54.931-08:002015-12-20T02:01:54.931-08:00Minor nitpick: "almost none of them attribute...Minor nitpick: "almost none of them attribute those things to their success." Their English teachers and editors would advise them to either *attribute* their success to those things, or *credit* those things for their success. Things that could correctly be *attributed* to a writer's success would include large royalty checks, speaking invitations, and groupie threesomes. ;-)Alex Harmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18081758930952296822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2660089177097719300.post-3879915698180115202014-06-13T16:44:01.393-07:002014-06-13T16:44:01.393-07:00As do you!As do you!Chris Brecheenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07819138776404280633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2660089177097719300.post-92164312782750203362014-06-13T16:43:28.991-07:002014-06-13T16:43:28.991-07:00My pleasure! Thank you for such a stimulating que...My pleasure! Thank you for such a stimulating question. I had fun with it.Chris Brecheenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07819138776404280633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2660089177097719300.post-72375021210848802152014-06-13T16:29:55.600-07:002014-06-13T16:29:55.600-07:00Thank you Chris.
Favorite line: "It is such ...Thank you Chris.<br /><br />Favorite line: "It is such a sausage fest that it actually creates a Bechdel black hole and the movie itself would disappear in a flash of matter/antimatter light if it ever touched a copy of Beaches."Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09326703653567218178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2660089177097719300.post-31553178149976605392014-06-13T15:45:34.374-07:002014-06-13T15:45:34.374-07:00"But to cite the failings of DPS to didactica..."But to cite the failings of DPS to didactically portray an aspect of teaching that wasn't actually trying to portray like getting upset that you watched Stand and Deliver four times and still don't know calculus." <br /><br />This part made me laugh. Bravo. Well done. You rock.FlitterKithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13608020818320413943noreply@blogger.com