----- Original Message -----
From: William Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002 9:46 PM
Subject: Re: A reading gap is evil, why it must be eradicated
> In a message dated 11/24/2002 7:46:55 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> > > The only book I ever burned was The Bell Jar. I didn't think it was
the
> > right
> > > book to manditarily hand to a freshman.
> >
> > High school or college?
>
> College. High school freshman actually had more freedom to choose in the
70s.
> They had parents with phones.
>
> In HS I took communication, poetry, humor, and SF as well as the regular
> english courses.
Whereas when I was in the 10th grade, the teacher took us to the library to
select a suitable novel to read and write a report on. While we were there,
she asked me "What kind of books do you like to read?" I replied, quite
honestly, "Science fiction." She answered "That's not the kind of answer
I'd expect from an English 10-X [i.e., advanced placement] student."
IIRC, she didn't appreciate humor much, either. (At least not my brand of
humor.)
Historical perspective: At the time of that library visit, no human had
ventured further than Earth orbit. By the end of that school year,
astronauts had orbited the Moon twice.
> The humor/SF teacher married a student after she graduated.
She taught before she graduated?
All Subject Must Agree With Their Verb Maru
--Ronn! :)
I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon.
I never dreamed that I would see the last.
--Dr. Jerry Pournelle
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