Daily Dialogue theme next week: Teaching

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Scott Myers

19 Oct 2019 • 1 min read

“In 1930, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, in an effort to alleviate the effects of the… Anyone? Anyone?… the Great Depression, passed the… Anyone? Anyone? The tariff bill? The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act? Which, anyone? Raised or lowered?… raised tariffs, in an effort to collect more revenue for the federal government. Did it work? Anyone? Anyone know the effects? It did not work, and the United States sank deeper into the Great Depression. Today we have a similar debate over this. Anyone know what this is? Class? Anyone? Anyone? Anyone seen this before? The Laffer Curve. Anyone know what this says? It says that at this point on the revenue curve, you will get exactly the same amount of revenue as at this point. This is very controversial. Does anyone know what Vice President Bush called this in 1980? Anyone? Something-d-o-o economics. Voodoo” economics.” — ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ (1986)

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The Daily Dialogue theme for next week: Teaching.

Movie scenes involving teaching. That’s our focus this week. If you have any suggestions with scenes featuring memorable dialogue, click Write a response and post your recommendations there.

What to do:

Copy/paste dialogue from IMDb Quotes or some other transcript source.
Copy/paste the URL of an accompanying video from YouTube or some other video source.
Any trivia about the movie which you think would be of interest to readers, we always welcome that.

I’d also ask you to think about why the dialogue is notable. Is there anything about the dialogue which provides some takeaway related to the craft of writing? If so, feel free to share your Dialogue On Dialogue.

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Upcoming schedule of themes:

October 28-November 3: Nightmare
November 4-November 10: Driving
November 11-November 17: Interrogation
November 18-November 24: Doctor
November 25-December 1: Feast

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