1 result for (book:tps5 AND session:917 AND stemmed:letter)
4/12 (33%)
mistakes
aspirations
forgot
asshole
overvalue
[... 2 paragraphs ...]
We will call this a letter to Frank, though hopefully it can be of use to some other people I know (amused).
When you first learned to write in school, you had to be taught how to form the letters. You made many mistakes. Finally, however, you could form the letters quite easily. You felt triumphant. You forgot the mistakes you had made in the past. You had accomplished something.
Then you were told that you had to put those letters together to make words. Again you made many mistakes, and forgot them as with delight you now wrote separate words. Then you were told to put the words into sentences, and you followed the same procedure. You forgot your mistakes. Were you stupid or dumb—or an asshole—when you could only form simple letters? Obviously not. Your aspirations and your curiosity kept leading you toward a more complete development, until you could finally read and write whole paragraphs.
[... 3 paragraphs ...]
In your realm of reality, mistakes are a part of the learning process. They do not even seem to be mistakes until you are “at the next level” of development, or a step higher in your understanding—as when, say, in the sixth grade you looked back and saw a page of your own childish lettering done at the age of five.
[... 2 paragraphs ...]
