This weekend I had lunch with my mentor, great friend and former high school English teacher, Bill Jenkins.
I brought along a recently found copy of my notebook from Intermediate Composition (circa 1996). It was fascinating to read through it. I noticed:
We searched through the pages and found some interesting quotations. The first comes from Bill Jenkins himself:
"Good writing is like walking across a stage naked."
Another comes from Leo Tolstoy:
"Write only with your pen dipped in your own blood."
The last one is one of my all time favorites. It's another Bill Jenkins original:
"We learn not from our experiences but from intelligent reflection upon those experiences."
Wow. Maybe I did learn something in high school.
LET ME ASK YA THIS...
What did you learn in high school that's still applicable to your life today?
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Scott Ginsberg
Author/Speaker/That guy with the nametag
www.hellomynameisscott.com
2 comments:
I learned that what I percieve others to be thinking has no impact on what they really are thinking.
In other words, trying to read minds is an exercise in futility. If you really want to know, ask.
How to type. Of all the things I learned in High School, it was a keyboarding class my senior year that has really been the most practical.
Going through my journals, I just find normal teenage angst. But every day I can type without staring at my fingers and I am always happy about that.
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