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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab
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To: Paul Senior who wrote (72)1/2/1998 12:53:00 PM
From: Jack Clarke  Read Replies (1) of 4710
 
Yes Paul:

We should all try to be more tolerant. I have taught my children to remember the words on the first page of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby: "Whenever you feel like criticizing someone...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."

I'm not necessarily referring to financial advantages, although that may surely play a part. Many of us were raised without the modern disadvantages of television, schools without discipline, etc. We read for pleasure because there wasn't any TV. Schools made us read and write. In my public high school, I had Latin, French, English at a higher level that many kids now get even in private or parochial schools.

It really makes me angry, too, to see terrible English mistakes in our newspapers and on TV.

Jack
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