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Sam Pickett asks: What do you love?

 


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As all my friends know, there is a pedant in me and I have tried in the past to section it off by attributing such irritating behaviour to a Mr Pickett.

Now Mr Pickett had a life for over a year at a now moribund network we won’t name, and the funny thing is many people related to him as they relate to “real” teachers and/or authority figures — whether they realised it or not.

So in my role as pedagogue I attracted some with a hunger to learn and challenge themselves; some with a need to please; and others who just liked to perform and obviously never stopped being precocious children, deep down.

There was of course also the odd dominating personality who was quite rude about Mr Pickett.
The mind boggled as to what some of those trolls and jocks were like at school — were they like that or does the internet give them a new obnoxiousness?


Anyway all this is a prelude to what I came here to tell you: Mr Pickett, after a couple of tentative beginnings, is back and has a home on Tumblr.

He is beavering away on some ideas right now and anticipating some input from you. You can go and have a look now if you like, but the “lessons”, or tasks, call them what you will, probably won’t appear till tomorrow (depending on when your tomorrow is).


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In the meantime, I would like to set the mood.

Neither he nor I intend to get you bogged down on anything dull here, we want to be very clear about this. And neither will we settle for imitations of Obama, TXT or Facebook/Lamebook speak or any copy/paste unless it’s done extremely well.

To help Pickett, who also answers to “Sam”, pitch his questions and at the same time introduce yourself to other Tumblrs, please answer any of the following that “speak” to you:

1 ~ What ideally would you like to learn in “class”?

2 ~ Any favourite colour or family of colours (since we may use a lot of visual aids)?

3 ~ Please provide an A-Z of something or some things you love.
This should come easily — as a set of verbs, adjectives, nouns or names already lying in your heart, so DON’T LOOK UP ANY BOOKS FOR THIS!
We want to live in the here and now and we want to be ourselves; in this respect it won’t be like school at all.

Answer any or all of 1 2 and 3 using whatever means you prefer — the comment box, a reblog or a post of your own that we can link to. And see you there!

And if you don’t yet know about “ask” ASK somebody! Easy!


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