Elizabeth Hill

SandraDodd@... wrote:

>
> There are music teachers too, though, who want NOTHING to do with any
> playing
> by ear. They consider it gypsy lowlife nonsense for people to just
> make
> music up, or to waste their time "playing wrong" when they should go
> to a
> teacher and be taught JUST how to hold a guitar, or JUST how to use a
> violin
> "right."
>
> There are English teachers who shun street rhymes or jokes or regional
>
> dialects in favor of "reading level" and appreciation of "good
> literature"
> (meaning the same things the teacher was forced to read and told how
> to
> appreciate).

It's time for me to drop a "thank you" to you all for helping me loosen
up from being a literature snob. We've benefitted a lot from letting
lowbrow, popular stuff into our life without (much) guilt.

Right now we are having big fun reading the Animorphs series of books.

Betsy


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