Libba Bray Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: b. March 11, 1964
Birthday: March 11
We're in English class, which for most of us is an excruciating exercise in staying awake through the great classics of literature. These works - groundbreaking, incendiary, timeless - have been pureed by the curriculum monsters into a digestible pabulum of themes and factoids we can spew back on a test. Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they crave. Understanding and appreciating the material are secondary.
source: "Going Bovine". Book by Libba Bray, September 22, 2009.
topic: School, Exercise, Class, English Class, Groundbreaking, School Districts, Happy Things
