Life Seemed To Be An Educator's Practical

It Takes Great Self-confidence To Write A Newspaper Column. Some Might Say It Takes Arrogance. Be That As It May, My Willingness To Pronounce On A Great Many Matters Of Which I Have Little Or No Knowledge Is One Of My Prime Qualifications For This Trade.

How Many More Years Will Our Educators Continue To Lecture Us On The Evils Of Whipping Children Until They Bring Home High Grades? Year After Year We Listen To These Fellows Tell Us That It Is Not The Grade That Counts But The Development Of The Child's Personality. After The Lecture They Go Back To All The Best Schools And Reject Our Children Because They Have C Averages.

Long Words, Fat Talk They May Tell Us Something About Ourselves. Has The Passion For Fat In The Language Increased As Self-confidence Has Waned?

In Writing, Punctuation Plays The Role Of Body Language. It Helps Readers Hear You The Way You Want To Be Heard.

An Educated Person Is One Who Has Learned That Information Almost Always Turns Out To Be At Best Incomplete And Very Often False, Misleading, Fictitious, Mendacious - Just Dead Wrong.