I Don’t Know How to Write Book Reports

Thomas Kirby
2 min readFeb 4, 2024

As far as I know they didn’t teach people how to write when I was in school. It was some god-awful percentage of your grade, but if you learned how to write in my school, you didn’t learn it there.

From what little I’ve read and heard about the way that they teach in Japan, while they could be gentler (or maybe they are for all I know), they at least do teach.

There is an excluded middle problem. It’s also called “all or nothing.” Well, life rarely works that way. If you can’t get a job done all at once, you do what you can and pick it up…

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