"Writing can be taught or learned in the vacuum. We must say to students in every area of knowledge: "This is a how other people have written about t… - William Zinsser

Open Walden to any page and you will find a man saying in a plain and orderly way what is on his mind: I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

I thought of all the subjects where the teacher never gets this inside look, where students are graded solely on the basis of a right or a wrong answer.

All writing is ultimately a question of solving a problem.