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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Monday, April 04, 2005

RE: Bill Bennett's Recommended Reading

Behethland B. Clark opines:

"Bennett notes that any 10 works from the "Top 30" would be a substantial improvement on what is read in many schools."
I don't know about everyone else, but this IS what we read in high school! I believe North Stokes has a superior English and Lit. Department. It certainly paid off in college.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Things have apparently changed since you were there. My children were offered the opportunity to read very few of those and were required to read none of them. Of course, since most of those titles are on the shelves in our home, they ended up reading many of them.

Are you telling me they had you read the Bible? I'm surprised someone didn't put the ACLU on them.

Monday, April 04, 2005 4:24:00 PM  

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