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To: Sam Ferguson who wrote (16876)	6/2/1998 9:21:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) of 39621

Sam, I also was influenced by The Little Engine That Could. "I think I can, I think I can" is very motivating. I still remember all the pictures in the book!! I did not have anyone in my life who scared me about Hell. Maybe in those fiery Baptist sermons when I was on my grandmother's lap the preacher was saying that, but I don't think I absorbed much. You have my sympathies, though. I don't think fear is a good way to teach children anything. My husband was constantly told by the priests that he was bad and stupid. Things in Ireland have changed a little now, but back then children were beaten for every small thing they did wrong at school, including forgetting a fact. It is amazing to me that anyone learned anything. It sounds more like a torture chamber than a school. My husband had to have years of very extensive psychotherapy to recover just part of his self-esteem. He will never be as whole as if he did not attend Catholic school.

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