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OK, Erin, stop throwing me off. I'm supposed to be the one who defends Smith after you tear into him, but we both enjoyed him this time.

And away we go...

If, as Smith claims, " Sensitivity is the absence of expectation that learning will not take place" then the quest, the point, the high duty, not just as teachers, but as members of the learning human community is to decondition this expectation. I truly want to believe this asnd by way of example, I am trying to type this with my clumsy, habituauted hands aand fingers in the home position for to;uch typing. You see, I never learned to tou;ch type,and have bought into the cliche about "old doga nd new tricks." But, if I want to recondition myself to the idea that learning is the natural stste of the brain, I need to patiently practice this belief, not just argue theoretically.

What, you might ask, does this have to do with writing? I do not intend to teach primary writers or even secondaery ed. The students whch I wish to work with will already have preset habits and beliefs about what they can do and cannot learn. I'm attempting (frustration, wrist pain, flagrant typographical errors, and all) to make a personal and concrete example of what the possibilities are.

It sure as hell ain't easy, but I'm betting it will be wo;rth it.