The Mouths of Babes

When your students teach you

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This semester was my first foray into teaching a college writing class for journalism majors. For the first few weeks, I fretted about the best way to teach them. What I didn’t expect was how much they’d teach me.

There was one young woman who didn’t show up to class the first week — which is not atypical, of course. Sometimes it takes college students a…