New Mexico --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505
505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Sat, Jun 6, 2020, 8:34 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > Steve, > > > > When I was on sabbatical in England and feeling Very homesick, I set about > to draw a memory map of the United States. I was really pleased with the > result, and showed off with pride to my family. One of my children pointed > out to me that I had only 49 states. Can you guess which one I left out? > > > > N > > > > Nicholas Thompson > > Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology > > Clark University > > [email protected] > > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > > > *From:* Friam <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Steve Smith > *Sent:* Saturday, June 6, 2020 6:29 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] word of the day: "Eschatology" > > > > Nick - > > One day, during geography, I raised my hand and said, “How come > north/south America and Europe/Africa sort of *fit together?” *General > merriment on all sides, including the teacher’s. > > > > Did she do that to YOU, also? > > Nah, but my 4th grade teacher drew her own maps on mimeograph. When we > were studying Europe, she left out Switzerland. When she handed out the > unmarked maps as homework and asked us to fill in the country names and > place/identify their capitals, I noticed she had left out Switzerland! I > raised my hand, waited for her to call on me, then politely (or possibly > too eagerly) asked "Where is Switzerland?". I don't remember what > happened next... but she basically told me to "shut up". I did. But I > did not do *any more* Geography homework (or at least her hand-drawn map) > assignments for the rest of the year. > > When I flunked (who gets an F in a class in 4th grade?) the class, my > parents intervened and made the deal with her that she would pass me > if/when I did all the homework that summer. It grated the hell out of me, > but I remember whipping out the whole year of assignments in the first week > (or so) because we didn't not do what our parents told us to, even if we > sometimes didn't do what our teachers told us to do. I had, after all, > paid attention in class and *read the book* as I was as fascinated with > geography as anything else... I held the line on the > Europe-sans-Switzerland assignment and my parents acquiesced. I *LIKE* to > think that Ms. McCarty was more careful with her maps after I (innocently) > asked her about "Switzerland?". > > Later she told me to shut up when she was teaching "weather" and my father > had just shown me (he took daily meteorological readings at the USFS > offices) about wet-bulb temperature and even alcohol thermometers (which > are preferred over mercury ones for very low temperature use)... the "shut > up" came when I raised my hand and asked if the thermometer she was showing > us was mercury or alcohol. I think she said "there is no such thing" > before she told me to shut up. I don't know why she ever called on me, > but then one could ask why I ever bothered to raise my hand. I think I > did cut way back on that as the year progressed. > > Did your first grade teacher break a ruler on your knuckles for having bad > penmanship (age 6) ? And I didn't even go to Catholic School! Her name > was Mrs. Hay and *should have been* a Nun... > > - Steve > - .... . -..-. . ...- --- .-.. ..- - .. --- -. -..-. .-- .. .-.. .-.. > -..-. -... . -..-. .-.. .. ...- . -..-. ... - .-. . .- -- . -.. > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >
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