III. Writting in a Disipline as a Platform in Education for Sustainable Development
Writing
is a trade in which every educated man, woman, and child should be
skilled. Writing is a trade, which any one can master if he goes about
it in the right way. It is true that writing skill is often the only
trade of some people like the poets, novelists, newspaper reporters and
editors. These might be called specialists in writing, and writing is
their main occupation and way of making a living. But writing skill is a
universal trade and it is necessary for every person to know it to a
certain extent.
Most that is good in life comes from men's ability to make their
fellows share their thoughts and feelings. But it is not always an easy
thing to make others see how we feel or think. The young child is called
an infant, a word that means unable to speak. Half his miseries arise
from his inability to communicate his notions. Men are but children of a
larger growth, and much of their misery results from inability to tell
what they think or feel. In a sense the case is worse for the man than
for the child. The child makes gestures and grimaces to help his meaning
out, but the grown man has to communicate by letters and other
compositions.