This would be a most interesting discussion if we could get it
going on another list. It would be particularly interesting if we
could get a discussion going on this with just teachers. If others are
interested I could set up a list on egroups or something.
Cordially,
S. Barret Dolph
Headmaster
White Horse English
Development Center
Taipei Taiwan
Paul E. Doniger wrote:
> I won't comment on Mr. Reis's rather skewed vision of the state of literacy
> in the U.S.A. Rather, I would like to suggest that "the resistance to
> grammar" that we meet from our students is not very different from their
> resistance to poetry, reading of any kind, algebra, geography, or chemistry.
> It might be worth our while to consider the larger issues, rather than blame
> public education for the apparent failings of modern society. It seems to me
> that our students' real issues are linked more with the materialism of the
> 1980s in which they were born, as well as with their seemingly insatiable
> need to be entertained (how often to we hear them complain that x, y, or z
> is boring?)!
>
> Any takers?
>
> Paul
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Robert Einarsson <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 2:28 PM
> Subject: Re: politics of grammar
>
>
>
>> Bob Yates does not respond to Robert Reis's actual literacy
>> statistics. If those statistics are true, how did so many people
>> become literate without a public school system? And does the
>> current education establishment have anything to do with the
>> resistance to grammar that many of us have experienced?
>>
>> True, Robert Reis's posting does not contain any grammar tips.
>> But members of this listserve do need to be aware that grammar
>> has somehow become a political issue, strangely enough.
>>
>> -----------------------------------------------------
>> Sincerely, Robert Einarsson
>> please visit me at
>> www.artsci.gmcc.ab.ca/people/einarssonb
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