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From: dlindsle@blackbird.afit.af.mil (David T. Lindsley)
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Subject: Re: Against educational fads (was: math credit)
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Date: 10 Dec 90 16:49:28 GMT
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My unsolicited $.02:

One of the reasons that students are becoming less and less capable
of putting together coherent sentences is the loose structure of the
English language -- it makes teaching grammar nigh impossible. (Anyone
I've ever known who teaches a course on the structure of English has
at some point referred to that course as an oxymoron.) Teach them a
foreigh language (preferably Latin), with emphasis on grammatical
structure, and start early. 

Dave L.			dlindsle@blackbird.afit.af.mil
#24601			dlindsle@eagle.UUCP

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