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From: Ralph L. Wahlstrom
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1992 15:22

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Lili, and everybody else:
You've all made the assumption that my Sister Emerita Joseph was
something out of a Latin school horror show, that because she was a nun
teaching in a Catholic school she was a cruel arbiter of pure grammar in
its worst form.  Mais Non!   You may have missed my whole point.  She was,
in fact, a caring, creative teacher of writing who demanded an awful lot
from her 7th graders, required that we write on any number of topics, and
included heavy doses of grammar.  I am not one of the "I was beaten: I must
beat" crowd.   Of course her pedagogy was imperfect (unlike so many of us),
but it was effective, and it established a foundation for our development
as writers.

Ralph W.        rwahlstr@hp.uwsuper.edu

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