Writing Center Theory #9

Responses to "The House That Mina Built"

I agree with Garri about this book depicting Mina Shaughnessy as a Mother Theresa figure. I think it shows how much Jane Maher truly admired Mina and all of the work she did for the SEEK students at CCNY.

Mina sounds like a fearless woman and a teacher who truly made the effort to listen to and understand her students. Maher says, "Mina believed that one way to discover what the students should be taught in the SEEK program was to discover what they would be expected to know when they took courses in other disciplines" (100). She wanted to prepare her students so that they could be successful in future classes. She believed in them.

I found this chapter inspirational and would love to read the rest of this biography.