Word: grammar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jessica, her brother Joshua, 9, and sister Jasmine, 3, at home--without filing a home-schooling plan with the local authorities. Hathaway seemed to have a reflexive distrust for institutions and convention and a fear of stifling her children. Jessica did not have dolls but tools. Instead of studying grammar, the children did chores and sought what their mother called "mastery." Boundaries seemed to be off limits, and parenting seemed to consist of cheerleading. "They're getting a tremendous education from having their lives be in the real world," Hathaway had said. "What it takes to get this flight scheduled...
...recalled a speech she gave at the Law School in which a student commended her words, only to add that they might have been more effective if she had used proper grammar...
Stout's reply: "I use perfect grammar in my community...
...below will be prohibited from teaching for a term and forced to do time with the slightly dilapidated folk at the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning. There they will learn about such subtleties as not marking papers with red pen (too intimidating), not criticizing students for bad grammar (ditto), and feigning a respectful attitude toward whatever last-minute drek a student might contrive to present. Mostly, however, they will learn not to engage in egregious misbehavior. In practical terms this boils down to being a nicer person and giving out higher grades...
...Laws" from Harvard. An extremely frustrated former-president and newly instated University overseer John Quincy Adams wrote that as "an affectionate child of our Alma Mater" he could not countenance "her disgrace in conferring her highest literary honors upon a barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and hardly could spell his own name." Indeed, after receiving the degree, which was presented in Latin, Jackson was said to have responded. "Ex post facto; c pluribus unum; sic scmper tyrannis; quid...