[lit-ideas] Re: Joke
- From: "Judith Evans" <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 17:04:29 +0100
> I wouldn't be at all surprised if there were a strong positive
correlation
> between number of years spent in formal schooling and ability
to recall one's
> teachers' and professors' names.
I suspect enjoyment of the education's an intervening variable.
I seem
to have spent 23 years in formal schooling and can hardly
remember
any names of primary and grammar school teachers.
(I think I just broke the inductive chain.)
Judy Evans, Cardiff
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> I remember the name of every teacher and professor I've ever
had since grade 1.
> I can't remember the name of my kindergarten teacher, though,
since I spoke
> very little English at that time.
>
> I wouldn't be at all surprised if there were a strong positive
correlation
> between number of years spent in formal schooling and ability
to recall one's
> teachers' and professors' names. Much anectodal evidence
supports my
> hypothesis. (Eg: A classmate of mine in grade 5 quit school in
grade 6 to join
> the Hell's Angels. Last time I saw him (1984), he could recall
the name of only
> one teacher he had had in school.)
>
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