EDUCATION

HIGHER LEARNIN'

Hi y'all I'm Bo Lumpkin and I've been thinkin'.

While I was studyin' my new English book I bought I realized just how dangerous my writin' has been. Someone could have easily been run down by a stampede of run on sentences or injured by a dangling participle. I might have to start puttin' a warnin' label on my website. WARNING BAD GRAMMAR IN USE. Read at own Risk. Someone could wind up with a conjunction.

If had paid more attention in school I reckon I would have learned some of this stuff. The problem was that no one made me want to learn it.

I believe a good teacher is not one who knows the answers to the questions but one who makes the students question. Most of the time in the classroom is spent with notes going from the teacher's notebook into the student's notebook without ever going through either one of their brains.

Most of my teachers never made me want to learn. A student's curiosity must be stimulated. I reckon what I'm sayin' is the old sayin' "you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink," is wrong. You can make him drink if your give him enough salt. You have to make him thirsty, he'll drink. My teachers never made me thirsty.

I reckon after a while I got thirsty on my own and the water of knowledge is pretty satisfyin'.

I'm Bo Lumpkin and I've been thinkin' I hope all this learnin' don't mess me up. Whatchall been thinkin'? Leave me a comment or write me an email to bo@bolumpkin.com.