About.com Article: Mencken on English Teachers

[Michael Bailey]

Kevin wrote:
> Beetty: Remember you asked what my problem was w/english
> teachers, I evaded ans. & told you how many colleges Ive attended,

did you?  Shit, I must've lost the post or skimmed over it.
I've been to
Univ of Mich (sweet Ann Arbor)
Rollins College
University of Central Florida (Florida Tech before name change in 1980)
Florida Institute of Technology (UNIX class, instructor was overheard
saying we were the dumbest class he ever had)
Devry (some cool online classes)
Johnson County Community College...

degree, not yet...but it could happen...I love school!

So where-all have you gone?

 here is
> an ans. from Mencken.
>

Mencken was an anti-Semitic curmudgeon, with, admittedly,
a way with words.  But that's ad hominem...
The article besides tastelessly advocating violence
doesn't light a candle, instead rails against the darkness.

I learned a lot from my teachers despite being a slacker addicted to
mindless pleasures.
One thing applies to takeways from education and lots of other things:
you get out of it what you put into it.
I used to call that the vomit theory of life,
but one of my professors suggested a more palatable title,
"the sack lunch theory of life" (just one of many improvements my profs've made)

Peace out