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To: Rambi who wrote (276771)	10/26/2008 2:23:16 PM
From: KLP	1 Recommendation Respond to of 793868

Rambi and All...Here's a book recommend that is germane to the topic of education. This new immigrant to the US WANTS to learn English so that he can succeed in this country. Rosten was a genius - The book is filled with humor and we all learn at the same time....I still have this book, and did, years ago, read the others.... My MIL, the long time teacher who taught 9th grade English, always said that "children were just like adults....they just didn't have as much experience as adults as yet".... *The Education of HYMAN KAPLAN by Leo Rosten** amazon.com Written Seventy Years Ago Hyman Kaplan Still Delights, March 7, 2005 By L. Young "palmtree2000" (West Orange, NJ USA) - See all my reviews This review is from: The Education of HYMAN KAPLAN (Paperback) Having just begun teaching English As A Second Language to a group of Asian adults, a relative thought I might enjoy "The Education of Hyman Kaplan". The novel takes place entirely at the American Night Preparatory School for Adults. There under the tutelage of Mr. Parkhill, Hyman Kaplan, Miss Mitnick, Miss Caravello, Mrs. Moskowitz and an assortment of Jewish and Italian immigrants struggle with the complexities of the English language, anxious to master the language and learn about the history and culture of their newly adopted home. The irrepressible Mr. Kaplan takes center stage in the classroom with his singular logic in using the English language. Abraham Lincoln becomes Abram Lincohen, King George III of England is an autocrap, and Valley Forge becomes Velly Fudges. Kaplan conjugates the tense to die as "die, dead, funeral", and when talking of the contents of a newpaper he can't understand why he must say "it said", instead of "he said", since the paper is decidedly of the masculine gender. It's the Harold Tribune after all. This is a hilarious yet touching book. We are never laughing at Hyman Kaplan's linguistic foibles but with him, as we appreciate the struggles of all immigrants, those seventy years ago, or those today to come to terms with becoming Americans and learning the language that binds us together. 12 of 12 people found the following review helpful: The Genius of HYMAN KAPLAN, December 19, 2001 By David Dennis (Woodland Hills, CA United States) - See all my reviews This review is from: The Education of HYMAN KAPLAN (Paperback) Hyman Kaplan is a leader of men, an inspiring, eloquent orator with a true sense of drama. He forges his own paths, makes his own rules. Unfortunately, those rules only rarely coincide with those of grammar, spelling and pronunciation. And so he eternally flunks the beginners' grade in English despite awing both friend and foe. What moves me to write a review is what the other reviewers seem to miss: HYMAN, for all his mistakes, is a winner of a character, not a loser. This book is true testimony to the talents of immigrants as well as their tribulations.*