I rather love this clip from Dead Poets Society. I have been unlucky enough to know teachers who would have agreed with Dr. J. Evans Pritchard, that poetry and human emotion can be measured on a graph. However, I've also been blessed with "free spirit" teachers, those who taught me that poetry can be an immeasurable source of joy and passion, not just a piece of intellectual insight.
* Post originally written 09/17/10, posted using Blogger's scheduled post
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"I've also been blessed with 'free spirit' teachers [...]"
And let me guess: They all wrote or advocated so-called "free verse", and neither read nor taught anything published before 1900.
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