After having read CoL49, this is what one of my students said ...

[Tim Strzechowski]

My students are high school seniors, honors level.  Of course, I'm beginning
to think that today's communication systems of choice (e-mail, text
messaging, cell phones, IMing, etc.) have an impact on how today's young
people would interpret CoL49.  Many kids today rarely even communicate via a
normal telephone, let alone use the mail service.

To a typical 17 yr. old, I would imagine the U.S. postal system seems pretty
antiquated.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "john winthrop" <john_winthrop at hotmail.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 8:44 AM
Subject: Re: After having read CoL49, this is what one of my students said
...


> Well how old are your students?
> Not that it's a good excuse, just wondering.
> to know how important the mail system is you would have to use it every
once
> in a while, some how the more it goes the less snail mail we are
acquainted
> with. did you read about that high school survey showing a majority of
> students thought the first amendment to be too liberal?
> hm.
> welcome to our world.
>