Re: teaching reading comprehension

On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 22:49:56 -0500, in message
<ddfr-768796.22495604082005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
David Friedman <ddfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> caused electrons
to dance and photons to travel coherently in saying:

>I have taught, at the graduate level, in two different fields--in
>neither of which I have ever taken a class for credit. In the case of
>economics, a good deal of my education consisted of teaching most of the
>curriculum at VPI, over a period of some years. I suspect Jim Buchanan,
>who was the de facto benevolent dictator of the department at the time,
>deliberately set it up that way, but I don't actually know.

I suspect that it would have been as difficult for you, growing
up in the home you did, with the parents you had, to have been
ignorant of the major principles of economics, as it would have
been for me to be ignorant of the principles of effective
automobile salesmanship.

--
Doug Wickstrom <nimshubur@xxxxxxxxxxx>

"I feel a sudden, strange urge to say something pithy and quotable."
--Michael Flynn

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