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From: horne-scott@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne)
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Subject: Re: Against educational fads (was: math credit)
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Date: 12 Dec 90 01:44:13 GMT
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In article <1805@blackbird.afit.af.mil> dlindsle@blackbird.afit.af.mil (David T. Lindsley) writes:
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<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.

I don't think so.  The problem is that students aren't exposed to enough good
writing.  If they never see any, how can they possibly produce any?

I agree that foreign languages are important, but for a different reason.

					--Scott

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