Just a short post to mark an extremely pleasurable event. My granddaughter, age 9 3/4, just wrote her first piece of fiction. I'd post the entire thing here, but she's a bit shy about it. It is such a great joy to know that at least part of that creativity and love of learning and expressing herself is a result of my influence.
She asked me to type it up and I couldn't help but discuss the story a bit with her, and was delighted at how she took my questions and comments and revised the story somewhat, showing great skill in incorporating feedback into her own creative process.
This is the joy of being a teacher, and I sometimes wonder what it might have been like to follow a different path where I was teaching young people every day.
But at this point, it is a privilege whenever I get a chance to share something with a person of any age who has a passion to learn and to act on new knowledge.
She asked me to type it up and I couldn't help but discuss the story a bit with her, and was delighted at how she took my questions and comments and revised the story somewhat, showing great skill in incorporating feedback into her own creative process.
This is the joy of being a teacher, and I sometimes wonder what it might have been like to follow a different path where I was teaching young people every day.
But at this point, it is a privilege whenever I get a chance to share something with a person of any age who has a passion to learn and to act on new knowledge.
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