Pulitzer Winner Margaret Edson
After she wrote the harrowing play "Wit," she began teaching kindergarten.
By: Jake Miller | Source: NRTA Live & Learn | THURSDAY, October 2, 2008
Credit: Jim Gipe—Courtesy Smith College
Since her play piled up so many major awards, Margaret Edson is in demand as a speaker. Here, at her alma mater, Smith College, in 2008.
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Discover Margaret Edson's play, Wit.
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A Brief Excerpt
Classroom teaching is a physical, breath-based, eye-to-eye event.
It is not built on equipment or the past.
It is not concerned about the future.
It is in existence to go out of existence.
It happens and then it vanishes.
Classroom teaching is our gift.
It's us; it's this.
In her Atlanta elementary-school classroom, Margaret Edson shares the creative mystery of learning with her students. (Photo by Ann States)
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