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Date: 18 October 2009 20:53:57
Education is to thank for introducing me to English Literature and yet, at the same time, to misleading me into thinking some of it as dull as ditchwater.
I am sitting watching Emma on BBC 1 this evening and realise firstly how amazingly well I remember it, considering that I studied it thirty years ago and have not read it since, and secondly how much I would have enjoyed it if I'd studied it with Mr S rather than Mrs D at school.
What a coincidence that it should be on TV on the very day that I was telling the Smudgelet about Mr S, the best English teacher in the world. Some teachers inspire a love of literature, others can put you off certain books for almost ever, or at least until you read the book without the contraints of character and plot analysis.