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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

English teachers.  A joy, one and all!

Miss, and yes, Miss, not Ms. unless you wanted to end up at the Dean's 
office (go ahead and ask how I know this <g>), Peabody.  9th grade English 
teacher.  Looked exactly! how you would expect someone named Miss Peabody to 
look.  Age?  Somewhere around 100 <g>

There I sat, bored to tears, drawing little critters out of alphabet letters 
("s" makes a great swan and capital "P" makes a great puppy) when Miss 
Peabody, in the voice that fit her so well, I might add, says "Lynda, where 
is Timbuckto?"  Startled, my reply, "I don't know, I thought this was 
English not geography."

I'll leave my grade to your imagination <g>

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>
> I was bored to pathological proportions all though school.   I failed
> freshman English (and never did anything but low C's at any time) and was 
> the
> consternation of teachers and parents when they discovered I was using my 
> class time
> to learn Greek and for no particular reason except for an opiate to the
> boredom.  I bade fair to fail senior English as well because of a heated 
> argument
> with the teacher when I held that English was not based on Latin. 
> Fortuenately
> it was the late 60's and I discovered the transcendentalism and meditation
> that was all the rage (and kept me [mostly] off drugs) so I'd just go into 
> a
> trance during classes, that added the ire of the Church in addition to 
> parental
> and teacher ire.
>
> As I was writing this, the mailman (a neat fellow who plays Celtic flute)
> drove the winding obstacle course up to the house to deliver some 
> packages,
> including some of those neat molecular model kits where you build all and 
> sundry
> molecules from atom centers and spaced bonds.  I found I could no longer 
> answer
> some of the children's questions (11 and 12 year olds) without some visual
> aids.  And so it will go:  "It is called atom because in Greek it means 
> 'cannot
> be cut', and the most important thing for you to understand is that they 
> don't
> exist, they are just ideas...ah, but what ideas!"  This all came from a
> question, one that most thinkers have come up with independently though 
> human
> history, that one of the girls proposed to the rest some time back .... if 
> you cut
> this copper penny (which is actually bronze rather than copper) into 
> smaller
> and smaller pieces, would you just keep cutting it forever?  Now we are 
> going to
> demonstrate that, no, you can't.  At some point it becomes a-tome, not 
> able
> to be divided and still be copper.  You see, copper does't really 'exist', 
> it's
> only an illusion brough on by its atomic number.
>
> Ripping stuff, this!   </HTML>
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