My old teacher was wrong – you CAN learn from SF

Posted by John Small | Apr 10, 2019 | Small Talk

Somebody – it may have been one of my old high school English teachers, but I can’t remember for certain at the moment – once told me that a person simply cannot learn anything valuable from reading science fiction, or from watching it on television or at the movies. What a load of bantha poodoo!! […]

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John Small

John A. Small is the Managing Editor and (with Publishers Tom and Mary Lokey) co-founder of the Johnston County Sentinel, a weekly newspaper headquartered in Tishomingo, Oklahoma. He came to Tishomingo (his mother’s birthplace) in 1991 and spent the next three and a half years as reporter and columnist for the Johnston County Capital-Democrat. Following a two-year stint as News Editor at the Durant Daily Democrat, he returned to the C-D as News Editor in 1997 and remained there until January of 2018, when the Sentinel was founded. To date his work as a journalist has earned him more than 220 awards from the Oklahoma Press Association, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Associated Press, the National Newspaper Association, and the Oklahoma Education Association.

My old teacher was wrong – you CAN learn from SF

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