Dear Steve Hoffster, I think it's always more important to teach the student... I plan to bring my Salinger Seminar online to bananafish this fall and was wondering if you might consider invitiing your students on as well. I think reading Salinger can show how phony divisions in education are and how closely ideas and words can bring us together. I may be a college teacher, phd, and blah, blah, blah, but I know there's 'great salinger action' in your classes and want to know more of it...funny, I still love "The Laughing Man" most of the 9...will On Wed, 8 Jul 1998 SHof48@aol.com wrote: > To Patrick and/or Will: I've taught high school English for 28 years, since I > got my B.S. in English Ed. Though there are, naturally, drawbacks, and it's > not usually academically stimulating, I really enjoy my work. At the > secondary (as opposed to college) level, the experience is certainly more > about working with kids than scholarship. "Catcher" is a "10th grade book" > but as a teacher of 12th grade and an elective I "get" "Nine Stories," "Franny > and Zooey," and "Raise High..." Not bad work. Interestingly (and not > surprisingly) most kids take quickly and enthusiastically to Salinger's > stories ("The Laughing Man" probably being the best seller). Steve Hoffster >