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  4. From: petel@sequent.com (Pete Lancashire)
  5. Subject: Re: Rereading 20 times (was: Branding kids)
  6. Message-ID: <1993Jan28.045625.2037@sequent.com>
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  10. References: <1993Jan24.001401.13638@jlc.mv.com> <C12AzC.MB1@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1jg9keINNlui@gap.caltech.edu> <1993Jan20.122231.21775@athena.mit.edu>,<00728020029@elgamy.jpunix.com> <25717@suned1.Nswses.Navy.MIL>
  11. Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 04:56:25 GMT
  12. Lines: 19
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  14. laura@TASVAX.NSWSES.NAVY.MIL writes:
  15.  
  16. >In article <00728020029@elgamy.jpunix.com>, elg@elgamy.jpunix.com (Eric Lee Green) writes:
  17. >[Stuff deleted.]
  18. >>The sad part is that these kids' prior teachers DID spoon-feed them. So I'm
  19. >>not just having to teach them this stuff. I'm having to de-program them
  20. >>from a mentality of learned helplessness. They're accustomed to having the
  21. >>teacher do everything for them. I refuse to do that. They hate it. So it
  22. >>goes.
  23.  
  24. >Stick to your guns, Eric.  You are doing these children a great service.
  25. >They will admire you for it later in life, even if none of them comes back
  26. >to tell you so.
  27.  
  28. I want to second it ...
  29.  
  30. -pete
  31. Pete Lancashire
  32. petel@sequent.com
  33.