If you haven’t read Oronte Churm over at Inside Highered, I highly recommend the superblog. This week, he blogs, with his usual wit and insight, about undergraduate writing students, and how their lack of familiarity with the world limits their ability to make metaphor.
An excerpt:
Protected by technologies, they’ve never known inescapable cold or heat; supported by affluence, they’ve never known real hunger or thirst. Many have only worked fast food or retail, occupations short on specialized processes and tools. They ride in cars sealed against breeze (who can take a 75 mile-per-hour breeze?) and road noise; they run on treadmills in the corner of a gym, iPods turned up loud so they can’t hear their own panting, or the thump of blood.
But better yet, read the whole thing here: In Praise of Carrots
