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- From: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk (Mary Branscombe)
- Subject: Re: Spheres and Calculus [Re: Cyber (was Introduction was Eh?)]
- Reply-To: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 13:46:00 +0000
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- In-Reply-To: <105443@bu.edu> mjmh@crsa.bu.edu (Michael J M Holmes)
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- /* recalls being bored in school
- Reading was the worst - reading out loud, in a circle - I'd never
- know what page we were on because I would read ahead about 50/60
- pages int eh book and be lost when it got to my turn and have to flip
- back a lot - luckily the teachers figured out why but it was very
- frustrating. I remember trying to help a much older friend with their
- reading (unfortunately when the teacher was standing behind us)...
- schools aren't really set up for people who learnt to read *before*
- they got to school....
- On the other hand I did have remedial hand-writing lessons when I was
- 16 - didn't help though!
- When I did German A level (after doing O level in 2 years from
- scratch (uh - O levels taken at age 16, A leves at age 18)) the
- timetable clashed with Latin so I had - 2 of the eight lessons with
- my year as they had been reschedulued, 2 extra lessons alone with my
- teacher, one extra lesson with the teacher from the next year and
- another odd student and the main 6 lessons with the year above -
- straight in at the deep end made my german come on no end... most of
- it is rusty now but I was very glad of a lfexible system that
- stretched me - it's always worth trying.
-
- Mary with her tail in a book
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- | Organisation: Me? You're joking, right? |maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk |
- | |maryb@cix.compulink.uucp |
- |I know I type "teh" for "the" My fingers have their own accent ;-) |
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