Tammy keeps asking me to find out what you are majoring in and as this means nothing to me, as a phrase, I'll ask you to explain. See when I took my collecge course there was no option, as far as I'm aware, to change direction or emphasis. You could add a subject to your studies but that was that.
Mine was a 4 year dual pathway course first in Education secondly the topic you wanted to teach, in my case CDT. So I earned a B.Ed Hons which I was quite proud of even though I subsequently learned that a B.Ed don't mean beans! They expect you to keep on going until you finally get a Doctorate but all i wanted was a job, bugger the upper echelon bullshit.
Anyway, I bet this indent paragraph doesnt show up on the message board, I could type this in HTML but really is it worth the trouble?
I'm like you, re our previous remarks about touch screen devices. I prefer pen to paper and I know it helps me retain what I have written. Daddy insisted that I learn to write in copper plate and I still do and you know its much faster than the chicken scratch most people call handwriting. Also it looks better, in fact gives ones nonsense a gravitas simply by how it impresses the less capable.
DO NOT FOLLOW THIS ADVICE!
I may be wrong but I suspect a few essays passed inspection simply because they were legible and looked nice. "Oh I'm sure this bloke knows what he's talking about". I wrote some awful final exam papers on Piaget - hardly anyone ever read his books - but I have a good memory and filled my guff with portentous quotations (some of which I invented) and got away with it.
1000 years ago I might have been quite happy to sit in a monastic scriptorium and laboriously copy Bible pages complete with naughty little illustrations that no one would notice except the rare reader who would possibly get a grin from it.
Oh I see we're back on books again, good.
Other childhood authors I enjoyed were Enid Blyton's 'Famous Five' stories, Captain W.E.Johns 'Biggles' stories, oh and of course Sherlock Holmes.
I had a shelf full of classics, I still laugh at reading Charles Dickens 'Pickwick Papers', I loved all the Jules Verne sci-fi though I think 20,000 Leagues is far the best, I just wish he'd written a book explaining how and why Nemo built the Nautilus and what eventually happened to it.
I loved sci-fi. I used to get off the bus two stops from home on the way back from school, go into the local library, grab the latest Gollancz book (publisher with easy to spot yellow covers) and walk home reading it. Theres a lot of crap in sci-fi but some real gems too. You can't go wrong with Arthur C.Clarke and Isaac Asimov rarely disappoints.
Mummy loathed and despised Sci-fi and almost anything 'American' as she considered it. Especially comic books but my best friend Alex who visits here at the Imperial Club, has a younger brother Simon who turned me onto the Marvel comics which were streets ahead of the rather stodgy D.C ones. It was the artwork that hooked me, not the stories.
Okay that'll do for now. Love Pop-pop
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