tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post2906734133185758460..comments2024-03-20T16:46:13.343-04:00Comments on Marly Youmans / The Palace at 2:00 a.m. / poems, stories, novels: The Wilder FlapMarly Youmanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-35476815165040157412018-07-01T21:55:26.657-04:002018-07-01T21:55:26.657-04:00Yes, exactly so!
I do think younger children ough...Yes, exactly so!<br /><br />I do think younger children ought to be encouraged to read for homework. <br /><br />A lot of teachers don't get that difference between meaningful homework and make-work that takes a student from pursuing his/her own interests and spending time with family. And kids need dream time!Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-91312895249228563692018-07-01T21:39:01.784-04:002018-07-01T21:39:01.784-04:00The management of homework must be one of the best...The management of homework must be one of the best tests of teachers. On the one hand, there should be homework, to reinforce learning and to establish whether the student really understands the matter. On the other hand, there is mere piling on. When my son was in middle school and early high school, he had two Latin teachers: of one's homework, I could say only, Well, there's a lot of Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14819154529261482038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-72047835381254804832018-06-30T21:03:20.427-04:002018-06-30T21:03:20.427-04:00I think the abolition of make-work homework would ...I think the abolition of make-work homework would be of the greatest assistance to children--just a simple assignment to read and be able to say a little about what was read would be grand.Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-44707861679870082112018-06-30T17:28:31.046-04:002018-06-30T17:28:31.046-04:00A friend was just on Georgia Public Radio holding ...A friend was just on Georgia Public Radio holding forth on what helps the young develop a love of reading, in a Friday program on "The Great American Read". She is in the business of studying and consulting on education, and has thought a good deal about it.<br /><br />I don't think that the embarrassment of the librarians at having once used Wilder's name will affect the Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14819154529261482038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-31578480093250535102018-06-29T08:58:21.888-04:002018-06-29T08:58:21.888-04:00Passages like this make me think that the libraria...Passages like this make me think that the librarians won't change their minds: Laura stood stock still. Suddenly she had a completely new thought. The Declaration and the song came together in her mind, and she thought: "God is America’s king. She thought: Americans won't obey any king on earth. Americans are free. That means they have to obey their own consciences. No king bosses PaMarly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-51392114939094825032018-06-29T08:47:59.688-04:002018-06-29T08:47:59.688-04:00Hah! I expect many readers of my generation snuck ...Hah! I expect many readers of my generation snuck such books off parents' shelves when they ran out of the day's library books. All, all are guilty!<br /><br />That's a good apophthegm. A resonant adage. However, I expect you have picked up an education--I admire your French and your singing, for example. Anyone of sense realizes that his or her accumulation of knowledge is just a fewMarly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-52830466083370230662018-06-29T02:57:28.279-04:002018-06-29T02:57:28.279-04:00Boy, do I need a euphemism. It's tough being s...Boy, do I need a euphemism. It's tough being serious jocularly, not everyone gets it. Perhaps an apophthegm?<br /><br /><i>In every under-educated man is a starveling crying out for the womb.</i><br /><br />RR as a dreadful warning: You (plural you, of course) too could have ended up like this. Your failings revealed in the austere corridors of learning - that once you read a Readers Digest Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-86322979645849806822018-06-28T14:55:08.681-04:002018-06-28T14:55:08.681-04:00Context. Agape goes with wolverines. Agape only go...Context. Agape goes with wolverines. Agape only goes with wolverines from a distance.<br /><br />Surely agape (the one I meant) is now recognizable as a borrowed word in English, a part of our language too... No?<br /><br />I am thinking that Roderick Robinson ought to be a euphemism for something. But what?Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-31602086983971875652018-06-28T10:48:09.931-04:002018-06-28T10:48:09.931-04:00Tee-hee, that's a show-stopper. Problem is no ...Tee-hee, that's a show-stopper. Problem is no one knows how to pronounce it. To put it another way, we know this one: "The wolverine pounced on him, mouth agape." But how do we differentiate?<br /><br />Tell you what, these days you can make a tiny bit of Classics go a long long way. I've been dining out on 150 words of Latin, plus two quotes, since my teens. <i>Caveat emptor,</Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-59721085117498867902018-06-27T20:36:57.430-04:002018-06-27T20:36:57.430-04:00On 5. That's true, I am sure. Though I have b...On 5. That's true, I am sure. Though I have been surprised by young people not knowing, say, what the Holocaust was (doomed to repetition?)<br /><br />On 8. Yes, agree to both thoughts... I'll check out your post.<br /><br />And this reminds me of a post from ages ago. Here's a bit:<br /><br />Like everybody else, I've wondered why the world sometimes appears such a miscreant Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-68474838875394975152018-06-27T20:31:36.748-04:002018-06-27T20:31:36.748-04:00I posted three Bradbury quotes on twitter this wee...I posted three Bradbury quotes on twitter this week...<br /><br />Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451: Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.<br /><br />and<br /><br />Bradbury: “Fahrenheit’s not about censorship. It’s about the moronic influence of popular culture through local TV news, the proliferation of giant screens and the bombardment of factoids. We’ve Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-53907098069972316702018-06-27T20:27:44.246-04:002018-06-27T20:27:44.246-04:00Hah, double rive-rag! You are a distinctive soul, ...Hah, double rive-rag! You are a distinctive soul, Roderick Robinson.<br /><br />Alternate final phrase for Roderick Robinson, the unique alliterative blogger and commenter:<br />1. With civility, and in pursuit of that universal love for one another which we call agape.<br />2. With civility and charity for one another.<br />3. With civility and concern for the welfare of others.<br />4. With Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-24651723831296924332018-06-27T19:22:24.848-04:002018-06-27T19:22:24.848-04:00Well, "quoted it".Well, "quoted it".Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14819154529261482038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-61868459558901855952018-06-27T19:21:12.828-04:002018-06-27T19:21:12.828-04:00To your point 5 I say that one should not underest...To your point 5 I say that one should not underestimate the ignorance of past crops of graduates. To point 8, there have been whole generations of whole fields of study that got lost in arguing about names. It is possible that when the intoxication of virtue wears off, the librarians will feel the hangover of absurdity. But that could take a while.<br /><br />Another light on some of this Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14819154529261482038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-31274669580405242012018-06-27T17:17:05.443-04:002018-06-27T17:17:05.443-04:00Hear, hear. Intellectual elitists are rushing towa...Hear, hear. Intellectual elitists are rushing toward a Bradbury-esque dystopian reality a la Farenheit 451 and congratulating themselves the whole way.Sharon Wilfonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17466621290140789056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-64887175031589324892018-06-27T10:47:28.009-04:002018-06-27T10:47:28.009-04:00Before I address your can of worms I need to open ...Before I address your can of worms I need to open another on my own behalf and The Palace at 2 AM seems the most appropriate forum. Regarding your post's final exhortation might you agree that the unqualified verb "love" has differing meanings on either side of The Pond? Perhaps it doesn't matter anyway, because I have just realised I raised this point before with you and the Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-30212286041769857592018-06-27T00:34:36.022-04:002018-06-27T00:34:36.022-04:00That's a good one. We certainly need to learn ...That's a good one. We certainly need to learn to talk to one another. And give up on the victimization rag and do another dance, together.Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-11954922699456807592018-06-26T23:41:38.873-04:002018-06-26T23:41:38.873-04:00I'm pretty much in agreement, but I have a per...I'm pretty much in agreement, but I have a personal #10: If we're going to become a big, diverse, decentralized society, especially one that will soon have no demographic majority, we're all going to need to learn to laugh more at ourselves <i>and</i> at each other—all of us. And we're going to have to do it in the context of realizing how dang good most of us have it, and how Jeffhttp://www.quidplura.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-72928246053074152772018-06-25T12:22:23.265-04:002018-06-25T12:22:23.265-04:00Hah, Tim, enjoy!
Your blog is the moveable feast...Hah, Tim, enjoy! <br /><br />Your blog is the moveable feast, it seems...Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-51247485404712495292018-06-25T11:41:16.253-04:002018-06-25T11:41:16.253-04:00Tis a tonic for my storm tossed soul. Thank you, m...Tis a tonic for my storm tossed soul. Thank you, my good doctor. I am now off the revisit old books by dead authors. I hope to then feel even better. <br />BTW, technology and bad brain waves sabotaged my blog address .... new digs ....<br />https://rtinformalinquiries.blogspot.com/RTDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17113953356514605424noreply@blogger.com