[B-Greek] Ancient Greek-Grammar War

George F Somsel gfsomsel at juno.com
Sat Feb 25 10:09:45 EST 2006


On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 07:03:10 -0600 "L. Harris" <ljoharris at ckt.net>
writes:
> Dear Members,
> 
> I found another very interesting article by a UWM professor David 
> Mulroy in 
> the Classics
> and how the war on grammar is effecting his field to the point of 
> extinction.
> This can be read at http://www.ateg.org/monographs/mulroy.php
> 
> Regards,
> Linda Harris 
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I found this to be an interesting article, and I think he's on the right
track.  The culprit is the spirit that doesn't want to tax the students'
poor psyches by demanding anything significant from them.  No one fails. 
This is a recipe for educational disaster.  On a personal note, I
remember when I was in the second grade and was not particularly
outstanding in my class (scil.:  I was doing poorly).  I then moved to a
country school where they began almost a full month before the city
schools.  Needless to say, I had some catching up to do.  I not only was
soon caught up but was more than up to speed in the subjects.  What had
been lacking was incentive.  Who finds reading "See Dick, see Jane, see
Spot" and "Run, Spot run!"?  I was simply bored.  What can we expect,
however, from a generation of teachers who were compelled to take all
kinds of courses in their preparation to become teachers in "Methods of
Teaching . . ." --supply your own activity:  mathematics, English,
basketweaving.  What they needed was instruction in the areas which they
would be teaching, not methods of teaching a subject about which they
were profoundly ignorant.  As work expands to fill the time allotted, a
student will rise to the level of expectations.

george
gfsomsel
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