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Saturday, September 12, 1998

Grammar Teachers!

I'm not interested in reading " The Starr " report. Perhaps

    retired Warwick school teacher, Raymond Turbit, will scrutinize it

    for unforgivable errors in grammar.For old fashioned type of school

    teacher, FORM was always more important than content. ( Perhaps President

    Bill selects his girl friends on this basis ? )   .

         Mr. Turbit detected a two-bit error in John Silber's spoken

    English ( I assume ). He is just a Silber tongued orator, I guess.

         " One must never use the plural " they " in referring to the

    singular ' person '   ", explains the math teacher.

          I will not judge Ray as a teacher, i suppose we should be grateful

    for teachers who never stop teaching. ( " Capital I - idiot ! " )

           But I recall a type of teacher that paralyzed a potentially

    gifted student - a future ACHIEVER - by terrifying him about VIOLATIONS

    of the RULES. Better leave the paper blank ! Better say nothing about

    the feelings in your soul !

            Did Ray ever tell a potential Einstein : " Hey dumbkoff, you

    can't even add right !  "

          The chairman of the Mass. Board of Education, John Silber, no

    doubt, survived such teachers. But only to become one himself ?

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