The Education of Oronte Churm

What happened to me when I had a chance to meet one of my writing heroes.

Some people asked for this. Not sure why.

Turns out that someone has always felt that students are "unteachable."

A professor thinks we have a generation of students that cannot learn. I disagree.

I return to the scene of some of my greatest happiness, and my most bitter disappointments, my former employer, Clemson University.

I talk to a former student about being an English major and having a job at graduation, as well as a new writing/tutoring program she's launching in Greenville, S.C.

In which I find being confined to an 8 x 12 room (with breaks for lunch) totally liberating.

Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum works at four institutes of higher learning at the same time. That's right, four.