Curriculum
Nice interview with Alan Moore (in my humble opinion, the world's greatest living author [David Simon is second]. Don't believe me. Take a minute and read Moore's 2003 piece on the Iraq war here). Or take in this description of Moore from the interview: But here’s another thing about Alan Moore that I really want to share with you. He’s a genius. He really is a fucking Grade A once-in-a-lifetime inspirational talking-in-tongues genius.
Why haven't you heard of Moore? Because he mostly writes comic books (you can read various interviews with Moore bookmarked on my delicious page here [Simon too]. Off topic for a minute, it seems as if Michele and Basile are the only MTCers to get delicious...) In any event, here is a school-related excerpt from the interview that I think will ring true to some MTCers:
The way that school seemed to me was that there was an overt curriculum - reading, writing and arithmetic - and a covert curriculum, which was more or less punctuality, obedience and the acceptance of monotony…
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