Re: OT More pens (was Re: Phoneme winnowing continues)

From: "kendra" <kendra@...>
Subject: Re: OT More pens (was Re: Phoneme winnowing continues)


> The first few grades of school, at my school at least, everyone wrote on
> MASSIVE paper. I hated it, it seemed so inefficient, and hard. It's hard
to
> write a good-looking letter that large.
In a drawing course I took a few semesters ago, they made us draw with these
really large tablets (I'm sure you know the kind).  I hated it, as I found
it hard to draw a good-looking sketch that large.  I found myself putting it
down and walking further away to look at the tablet again to get a sense of
what I was doing.  Then again, the teacher was a real nut anyway, so it
wasn't much fun.  Whenever she would go off on some (incredibly boring)
tangential lecture for the class, I'd usually sit there drawing something,
but on a smaller scale, as I preferred.

> And actually, I was taught
> how to write calligraphically in fourth grade, but only because I was in
> GATE (a 'gifted' program, which was actually extremely lame.)
I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one who thought GATE was "extremely
lame".  I don't think I'd ever had a teacher who knew what to do with me
until recently in college.  They always thought something like, "Hmm, Joe's
a bright kid, so let's give him some more work to do.  He should enjoy
that."

Then I had a professor who decided to let me do whatever I wanted in class,
as long as I had it approved as valid work beforehand.  I did more work in
that class than all of high school, and I certainly learned more.