good teachers are quite groovy, really.

I had a very nice conversation with my tenth-grade English teacher today. I loved tenth-grade English with fervor. (Unlike English this year - eeek. ^^;)

The reason I went over to talk to him during Global Studies in the library was because I had a couple of weeks ago given him a very much revised version of a storything that I handed in to him for an assignment in tenth-grade. So I went over and asked him if he had liked the storything. He said that it was very good and etc., he even said it was kind of Poe-like. I'm quite flattered by that comment because the man worships Poe. I told him I thought it was Hawthornish because I first wrote it when reading The Scarlet Letter for this teacher's class. He said yes, the sentence structure was Hawthornish (which is how I thought the story was so). And then we talked about it some more and he said that classes should teach more of that stuff - about writing lovely sorts of things and how academic things were too formulaic and whatnot. He said not everything in life is about having to prove something to someone else, like in a research paper. I heartily agree with that - that's why I kind of detest research papers. Unfortunately, as usual, I missed out on saying something terribly clever, but it was a nice bit of a chat anyhoo. And I was glad he said that thing about not everything being about having to prove oneself because sometimes I feared that I was wrong about that and would have to find it out painfully someday, but - maybe not.