Michelle Leifur Reid

Last night at the cafe I met a really interesting man. He came up and
asked for a "something" (a word I can't remember now but intend to
look up later) and I found out that the word means "something to eat"
He talked for me for a while (it was really slow at the cafe last
night) and he was just SO interesting. I asked him what his
profession was and he asked me what I thought he did. I told him that
I hoped that he was a teacher, because he was interesting and seemed
like the kind of person who could easily share his information in a
way that people would enjoy. He then said, "I do not like teachers or
schools. And tests are a horrible invention. Tests do not tell us
what a student has learned. Tests tell us what a teacher has failed
to communicate. When a student fails a test, it is not the student
who is at fault. It is the teacher who has failed. That teacher has
failed to effectively teach that student in a way in which that
student needs material presented to him. I am sad that you would
think I was a teacher." I smiled and told him that we at least agreed
on tests and it was one of the reasons that I homeschool my children.
I hope he comes to the cafe again. He never did tell me what it was
that he does.

Michelle

Deb

--- In [email protected], "Michelle Leifur Reid"
<pamperedmichelle@...> wrote:
>
> Last night at the cafe I met a really interesting man. He came up
>and
> asked for a "something" (a word I can't remember now but intend to
> look up later) and I found out that the word means "something to eat"

Hmm a 'nosh' maybe? That's the first word I thought of that isn't the
typical "snack" word. "eppes essen" in Yiddish is roughly "good eats"
maybe it was related to that?

Okay, so I had to find a thesaurus online and search on 'snack'
(since "something to eat" didn't get me anywhere)":

a bite, gorp, grub, nibble, nunch, tidbit, morsel, munchies, sop,
peck, vittles or victuals, chow, soupcon

just some of the ones from the list that were less often used

--Deb