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identify one truly impossible teacher. She cared about me,and
my intellectual life, even when I didn’t. Her
expectations were highimpossibly so. She was an English
teacher. She was also my mother.
B) When good students
turn in anessay, they dream of 2
their
instructor
returning
it
to
them
in
exactly
the
samecondition, save for a single word added in the margin of
the final page: ” Flawless. ” This dream came true for me one
afternoon in the ninth grade. Ofcourse, I had heard that
genius could show itself at an early age, so I wasonly slightly
taken aback that I had achieved perfection at the tender age
of14. Obviously, I did what any professional writer would do; I
hurried off tospread the good news. I didn’t get very
far. The first person I told was mymother.
C) My mother, who is just shy offive feet tall, is normally
incredibly soft-spoken, but on the rare occasionwhen she got
angry, she was terrifying. I am not sure if she was more upset
bymy hubris( 得意忘形 ) or by the fact that my Englishteacher
had let my ego get so out of hand. In any event, my mother
and her redpen showed me how deeply flawed a flawless
essay could be. At the time, I amsure she thought she was
teaching me about mechanics, transitions( 过 渡 ), structure,
style and voice. But what I learned, and what stuckwith me
through my time teaching writing at Harvard, was a deeper
lesson aboutthe nature of creative criticism.
D) Fist off, it hurts. Genuinecriticism, the type that leaves a
lasting
mark on you as a writer, also leavesan
existential
3
imprint( 印记) on you asa person. I have heard people say that a
writer
should
never take criticismpersonally.
I say that we
should never listen to these people.
E) Criticism, at its best, isdeeply personal, and