Re: see more glass
WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Wed, 08 Jul 1998 13:05:55 -0600 (MDT)
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
>