Abstract
4V OLCANOES of creative energy is how my college methods teacher described high school students, and this image burns the pit of my stomach as I watch my leaden-eyed students shuffle listlessly into the room and stare blankly into space waiting for their buttons to be pushed. I am pained to see them so unhappy and bored, but I can get no more excited than they about reading Silas Marner or discussing elliptical clauses, parts of the prescribed curriculum. The dryness and irrelevance of school irritates me further, because I know that most of my students have real problems in communication: they continually complain that they cannot talk to their parents; they sit nervously, afraid to speak to any of their classmates except their own small circle of friends; and most of them are completely unnerved when confronted with a member of another race. These are the communica-
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