I have always been jealous of the teachers and college profs because they got to read some truly brilliant pieces. Even though not a teacher, I get all benefits of the job.
Enjoy some excerpts from the student essays that I came across this year:
- The veterans of the Ukrainian Revolting Army
- You would think that it’s unreal that a teenager reads Shakespear’s plays, but read it because i found it in my “old things,” and there is a lot of murder, so i decided to read it.
- Americans always feel pity for those who get in trouble[,] are keen on disabled.
- Parents should take steps to prevent their teenagers from hitting the bottle.
- Lover man keeps in heart image by his love, makes him immortal, like immortal sun, Earth, wind, because just this immortality possible in our world.
- First i heard about law when i was 14.
- There is nobody who wants to be lovely on Earth.
- Ukrainian constitution was found in 1996.
- Once i tried to milk the cow but it was difficult, moreover the cow didn’t like my movements. [...] Playing with my dog pleased me a lot, too.
- Leo Tolstoy “The World and the Peace”
- What is the most important thing to make people happy? [...] First and foremost my suggestion would be to choose a landlord and make him the head of the government.
- We have first place in the world by the number of dead people.
P.S. In case you wonder what country kids are writing about, it is Ukraine.