And I always started the day's work with the difficult task of essay-writing.

On February 5, submit a first draft of your essay, performance script, or documentary highlights.

March 9: submit a final draft of your essay.

Years ago, I was asked to write 102 essays on the great ideas of some famous authors.

When good students turn in an essay, they dream of their instructor returning it to them in exactly the same condition, save for a single word added in the margin of the final page: Flawless.

The author's mother taught him a valuable lesson by pointing out lots of flaws in his seemingly perfect essay.

The author was not much surprised when his school teacher marked his essay as flawless.

Somewhere along the way I set aside my hopes of writing that flawless essay.

Perhaps the point of writing the flawless essay was not to give up, but to never willingly finish.

Once the essay was flawless, she would take an evening to walk me through my errors.

In any event, my mother and her red pen showed me how deeply flawed a flawless essay could be.

For each assignment, I was to write the best essay I could.

I am sure I wrote essays in the later years of high school without my mother's guidance, but I can't recall them.

In one 1990s experiment, a team including psychologist Joel Cooper of Princeton asked participants to write essays opposing funding for the disabled.

I'm calling to see whether it would be OK if I gave you her essay.

She was in the middle of writing an essay

For each assignment, I was to write the best essay I could.

In any event, my mother and her red pen showed me how deeply flawed a flawless essay could be.

Once the essay was flawless, she would take an evening to walk me through my errors.

Perhaps the point of writing the flawless essay was not to give up, but to never willingly finish.

The Perfect Essay Looking back on too many years of education, I can identify one truly impossible teacher.

This year, the programs range from one that turns the house into a collaborative essay to one that explores the meaning of exile.

Recently, we examined more than 400 essays on the laws of life that teens from two communities had written as part of an educational program initiated by the John Templeton Foundation in Radnor, Pa.

In those essays, and in follow-up interviews with a few of the teenagers, we found lots of insight, positive feeling and inspirational thinking.

A machine can read millions of essay within minutes.

Neville Cardus, who wrote for the Manchester Guardian from 1917 until shortly before his death in 1975,is now known solely as a writer of essays on the game of cricket.

In an essay entitled \Making it in America\, the author Adam Davidson relates a joke from cotton country about just how much a modern textile mill has been automated: The average mill has only two employees today, \a man and a dog\.

Such actions to seek knowledge and to understand what information we already knew were captured by the Latin phrase \sapere aude\ or \dare to know\, after Immanuel Kant used it in his essay An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?