Yes we are really high schoolers trying to make a dream come true and we hope you continue reading our blog. You will not be disappointed.

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious…

Now I think you have the key to sorting out ‘atrocious’

I hope the cantheworldhearme co-bloggers truly are precocious high school students and not simply poseurs launching a viral marketing campaign. I hope they’re lucky enough to have teachers who believe in the value of lifelong learning and who continue to adapt to new methods and technology themselves. An old professor of mine once insisted that only if the university made the use of interactive Web-based software a condition of keeping her job would she take the time to learn.

I hope the cantheworldhearme kids never encounter Michael Dirda, who, on behalf of the Campaign to Save Book Reviewing (in print media, of course, as it’s flourishing on the Web), felt the need to express his humorless disdain for litblogs:

Newspapers sift, filter, and evaluate; they are responsible and strive to be trustworthy. So, too, do their book review sections. To curtail such coverage is to abandon an intellectual forum for a childish free-for-all.

I’d like Dirda to explain why anyone should rely on his professional ability to filter and assess the quality of the books he reviews, when he doesn’t think filtering and evaluating commentary in the blogosphere is worthwhile.

What can you say about authority figures whose minds are blocked to learning, except that they’ve already been replaced?

I’m anticipating great things from cantheworldhearme. And thanks, WordPress, for the filter that allowed me to discover them.

(Sorry, couldn’t resist)