Re: Rereading 20 times (was: Branding kids)

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From: Pete Lancashire
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 04:56

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laura@TASVAX.NSWSES.NAVY.MIL writes:

>In article <00728020029@elgamy.jpunix.com>, elg@elgamy.jpunix.com (Eric Lee Green) writes:
>[Stuff deleted.]
>>The sad part is that these kids' prior teachers DID spoon-feed them. So I'm
>>not just having to teach them this stuff. I'm having to de-program them
>>from a mentality of learned helplessness. They're accustomed to having the
>>teacher do everything for them. I refuse to do that. They hate it. So it
>>goes.

>Stick to your guns, Eric.  You are doing these children a great service.
>They will admire you for it later in life, even if none of them comes back
>to tell you so.

I want to second it ...

-pete
Pete Lancashire
petel@sequent.com

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