"A moment occurs in this exchange between professor and student when each of us adopts a look. My look says, "What, you don't get it?" Theirs says, "We don't get it. And we think you're making it up." We're having a communication problem. Basically, we've all read the same story, but we haven't used the same analytical apparatus. If you've ever spent time in a literature classroom as a student or a professor, you know this moment. It may seem at times as if the professor is either inventing interpretations out of thin air or else performing parlor tricks, a sort of analytical sleight of hand."
When I read this paragraph included in the introduction, I immediately realized that I had a huge smile on my face spread from ear to ear. I started ACE Charter in the middle of my freshmen year, and it was a very hard adjustment starting there coming out of public school, especially in regards to language arts. I've always loved reading and writing, but ACE was and still is, a step further than me. I remember being very frustrated with the language arts class, because I didn't "get it', and did think my teacher was "making it up". I eventually started to gradually get the pattern of the class, and I must say, it's because of my teacher.
Many do not care for teachers, but mine, is great! Of course she is on a different level of understanding, but she's supposed to be. When the author mentioned the interpretations part, I laughed, because my class is always discussing interpretations and their meanings. Even today I think, "How on earth did Mrs. Z, come up with that?" I think this situation for students is a worldwide problem, but a humorous one.
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