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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Katelew who wrote (51191)3/1/2008 4:57:52 PM
From: Rambi  Read Replies (3) of 543044
 
Took the GRE and scored in 97th percentile on the verbal and 12th percentile on the math, lol.

That is SO damn funny!!! I was accepted Early Decision at U of R based on my extremely high English scores but I had to take remedial math at VMI with a class of male cadets the summer after I graduated. That was a GREAT summer.

Have you been back to Ft Worth recently? It's such a nice city. I am proud to have written a column for the Star Telegram for a while. And that brings me to your next statement.

We hear a great deal about our failure as a nation to compete in Math and Science, but very little about the ever-decreasing ability of people to communicate. When Dan taught legal writing at SMU, I would read the papers and just SHUDDER. These were college grads who presumably passed the LSATs and should have been able to write a complete sentence.

Aside: I just read a book on Shakespeare by Bill Bryson that I highly recommend as an entertaining and basic read on the Bard. We know very little about Shakespeare at all, so he focuses on the times. Spelling and grammar were extremely fluid. Very few rules. In some plays you will find several different spellings of one word and an abundance of newly created words. So perhaps we are too concerned with consistency.

But I don't think so.

So I totally agree with you about how ignoring language skills to emphasize science and math could be a perilous course.

If you go on a crusade, I would be honored to carry your spear as your Sancho Panza.

Ha. Just wanted Lane3 and the thread to know I am familiar with my Cervantes.
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