Kakki wrote: > I was also so addicted to books growing up that I would actually ditch class > every afternoon in 6th grade to go to the library and read. Looking back > I've never understood why my teacher let me get away with it - she still > gave me good grades and never called me on it!. We had to read at least 10 > books that year and compile our list of them at the end of the term. My > list was something like 120 books read!
I suspect she was one of those rare people in the field of education, who understands that learning is about more just listening to a teacher, and that you were gaining valuable knowledge by doing this. Further thought may have suggested that discouraging you might forever turn you against reading - she was obviously a very good teacher! Different if you had been skiving off at the local video game parlour - not something I ever did, obviously ;o)! Hell ____________________________ "To have great poets, there must be great audiences too." - Walt Whitman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hell's Personal Photo Page: http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hell/main/personal.htm Visit the NBLs (Natural Born Losers) at: http://www.nbls.co.nz
