Word: mistakenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...says that teaching writing in a university promotes the mistaken idea that education requires a turning inward into one's self, rather than outward towards the world." Creative writing classes, he claims, take away valuable classroom time reading the writing of great minds such as Milton and Joyce. I agree that turning outward towards the world, learning the ideas bestowed unto us by the Great Minds, is of utmost important. But turning outward does not mean the repression of turning inward to oneself...
...first attempt at athletic stardom came as a fifth-grader when I joined a little League team. By the end of the first week, the coach had convinced my mother that my talents actually equipped me better for softball than baseball. As it turned out, he was mistaken. I was equally ill-suited for softball and languished on the bench much of the season after amassing double digits in both batting average and number of fielding errors...
...perhaps you were under the mistaken impression that the University had a decade ago severed all ties to the nine all-male bastions of elitism known as finals clubs. But that denies the fact of the Porcellian's ongoing relationship with the Harvard University Archives...
...selling stories about their private lives for money, I think it is as low as you can go.'' CALCUTTA: Arsenic Agony When villagers in the Indian state of West Bengal began drilling tube wells in the 1960s, they thought they would be drinking pure artesian H2O. They were mistaken. Since 1983, more than 100,000 cases of arsenic poisoning have been reported; the consequences range from skin discoloration to cancer--and death. The source of the poison? Apparently chemical changes in the bedrock caused arsenic, a naturally occurring element, to dissolve into the groundwater. The central government recently stepped...
There is more. Creative writing, almost by definition, requires of students that they critically evaluate their own lives or experiences. This notion of writing, when housed in the university, promotes the mistaken idea that education requires a turning inward into one's self, rather than outward towards the world...