As far as teaching creative writing goes, you can't teach boring people to be more interesting, I do believe that, but you can help people to have more control over language and to express themselves in a better way.
Holly had just turned in a draft of a novel, called "The Manny," about a rich New York family that hires a muscle-bound male nanny to free Dad (he's busy), amuse Mom (she's bored), and teach their son, Dylan (he's sort of a weenie), how to be a dude.
For years, Radio 4 made me feel hot and cross, as wriggly as I was when stuck in a classroom being taught boring things by tedious teachers.
In fact, I learned a few years later that this was definitely the right choice because "freshman chemistry" was boring enough to teach some days, let alone having to have taken it.
These keen clinical teachers did not agree that they taught to "perform in front of an audience" and disagreed that teaching was boring, unsupported or a waste of time.
They had labelled ICT teaching as boring.
It appears that San Jose edX course is experiencing results similar to when universities switch from boring old lecture-style teaching, to a more interactive form.
Some previously thought of teaching as "boring" or a duty.
I wanted to find out about myself, and I thought, 'What do you hate?' and I thought, 'I hate teaching; it's boring.' So I have spent the past six years of my life doing that.
"At the moment foreign students' perception of UK universities is: wonderful history, great tradition, really good teaching, but a bit boring.
