I think it’s because they come along when we need them most, when we are young and vulnerable and are tentatively approaching this craft that our culture doesn’t have much respect for, but which we are beginning to love. They have so much power. They could mock us, disregard us, use us to prop themselves up.
But our teachers, if they are good, instead do something almost holy, which we never forget: they take us seriously. They accept us as new members of the guild. They tolerate the under-wonderful stories we write, the dopy things we say, our shaky-legged aesthetic theories, our posturing, because they have been there themselves.
Cameron Smith?
I have given the subject of writing some careful deliberation and have come to found that when it comes to reading for sake of solving for good style tense or grammar. It has become to near total useless. Rather using my time to listen carefully to wide variety of podcast ridden
Home school
they widened our worlds, gave us the tools to express ourselves, and in a way made the world UNLIMITED.