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Instead of teaching you how to analyze old poetry or memorize facts that never enter long-term memory, schools should make you aware of manipulative marketing/sales tactics and how to recognize advertisements.

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With my students, I do both poetry and manipulative rhetoric (marketing, politics, etc.); they are less exclusive than you may think.

You are a rare gem, like my teacher who taught us to play the WFF-and-Proof nerd-game "Propaganda"

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