Re: They hid behind Darwin

In article <1147821247.810764.212610@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
robin <rs2405@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yeah, I had a young guy like that. Hang in there buddy (Robert
Carnegie). My young friend frankly admitted how ignorant he was, how
baffled by the language he was trying to learn. "Genitive case is like
possessive in English and modern languages."

No shame in admitting your ignorance. (The only shame is remaining
there.)

"Keep trying" (my teachers used to pound away, to me, when I whined.)

A teacher "loses" no matter what she does. We just have to remember
that some seed falls on good soil, the old ones say. While other soil
has never seen the plow. The best learning sometimes takes hard work,
or self-denial, or intellectual "blood, sweat, toil, and tears."

The man who said that was ostracised in his native UK all through the
thirties. Did he "have a point?"

History seems to think he did. See JFK's While England Slept

aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem

(or .... don't fret when the going get's tough)


Do you speak because you have some point you want people to
understand, or because you love the sound of your own voice?

--
David Canzi Division of explanatory labour: Science explains the
evidence; religion explains the lack of evidence.

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