Ten Years to Build a Bridge Ten Miles
By: Don Rothman
Publication:
The Quarterly, Vol. 10, No. 1
Date: January 1988
Summary: Rothman delivered the following speech at the annual Writing Project Directors' Meeting, held at the National Council of Teachers of English annual convention in Los Angeles, California, November 1987.
Excerpt from Article
I want to talk about a bridge that took ten years to build. It has both symbolic and practical dimensions, suggesting a way to view our work from a global as well as local perspective. It is a bridge that suggests connections not only between colleges and schools, but between writers who have been censored, banned, exiled, and even executed and teachers struggling in this country to connect literacy education to democracy. It is also a bridge that helps us redefine our origins and our aspirations.
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