The printed word is no longer as in demand as when I was of the age of pupils or even at the age of the teachers teaching them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The printed word will be around long after many of our digital creations are gone, either because books don't require monthly hosting, and blogs and websites do... or because the languages and platforms for which a particular digital creation was published will become obsolete.
It was the case for a number of years that I was doing a book a year, but that was back when I was part-time teaching - and since 1991, I've been a parent, so that cuts into the time!
What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed.
The old ways of teaching are slow and expensive. But with mobile, cost plummets, access broadens, and pedagogy rises.
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.
Adult novels are as ephemeral as newspapers. Children's books stay in print for decades.
There are hundreds of thousands of words that aren't in any print dictionary today... because there's no space for all of them.
I find that with some girls, the words 'work' and 'education' have gotten a bad rap.
Use of the word; the word itself was not printed.