Return-Path: <nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id hBMGhDm11919; Mon, 22 Dec 2003 11:43:13 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 11:43:13 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <000701c3c8a8$1c568900$130101c8@workstation1> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "George Demetrion" <george.demetrion@lvgh.org> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-FOBASICS:911] I like to learn X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; Status: O Content-Length: 1622 Lines: 32 Perhaps the following essay, too, would be of some interest to your students. (GD) ____________________________________________________________ I Like to Learn George Demetrion April 22, 2002 I like to learn because it opens up new ideas for me. It helps me think. It makes me feel fresh, like a new man. It takes me out of myself and puts me into new places. I like to learn new things about myself. I like to learn about different people. I like to learn about how people tick, how I tick and how we tick together. We stick together and we tick together. I like to learn about culture. I like to study what's on the surface and what 's below the surface. There's a lot going on below what we can see, which shapes so much what we do and who we are. I want to grasp that. I want to understand that. I want to explore that. I want to communicate that and probe into the depth with others. That's what I like to do. I like to learn. I like to dig. I'm an excavator. I'm an explorer. I'm a scientist. I'm a historian. I'm an educator. I'm a student of life. I want to know all there is to know and and then some. Digging! Digging! Digging. Digging for the truth. Breaking through! Breaking through! Breaking through! That's me. That's what I want to do. That's what I need to do to feel whole. I need to come out of myself, where I am now to explore the depths and the heights. Pushing! Pushing! Pushing against the grain, against what merely seems normal, to make a new world, to break beyond the boundaries of my own fatigue and sense of limits. That's what I like to do. How about You?
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