Comments on: What Writers Can Learn from World War II Veterans https://www.writerscookbook.com/writers-learn-world-war-ii-veterans/ Serving writers with all the ingredients they need to succeed Mon, 19 Feb 2018 22:01:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Kristina Adams https://www.writerscookbook.com/writers-learn-world-war-ii-veterans/#comment-4066 Mon, 18 Jul 2016 18:33:00 +0000 http://www.writerscookbook.com/?p=2976#comment-4066 In reply to Cathy Thomas-Bryant.

Exactly Cathy! They’re both so much more than that. We were never taught about the people affected by the wars, just the politics behind them. And as for how poetry was taught…don’t even get me started. I know quite a few people that still can’t get over the way it was taught in schools, and that’s a decade after GCSEs.

]]> By: Cathy Thomas-Bryant https://www.writerscookbook.com/writers-learn-world-war-ii-veterans/#comment-4058 Mon, 18 Jul 2016 08:33:58 +0000 http://www.writerscookbook.com/?p=2976#comment-4058 You’re quite right – the narrative is what makes history live. I wish it wasn’t taught as a sort of dissection, even at an early age. The same applies to poetry – it’s presented as a sort of puzzle that one has to work out to get marks. Ugh!

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