Re: Best last lines

William December Starr wrote:
> In article <IlkEj.1935$qT6.225@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> "Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:
>
>>>> Is the conspiracy of professors, then, to coerce people to
>>>> appreciate the great books of the past?
>>>
>>> How many people do appreciate them?
>>
>> Lots of us, I would think.  Most of the people I know who consider
>> themselves readers.
>
> Maybe you know a rather specialized group of readers.

College-educated types, you mean.

>
>>> (And for bonus points, how many people, by comparison, had the
>>> stuff shoved down their throats in public school and learned to
>>> hate it?)
>>
>> An awful lot of people have also learned in school that
>> mathematics is boring and useless.  If everything a school could
>> make awful were outlawed, we'd still be living in caves.  Or maybe
>> in open fields, since we'd outlaw cave appreciation too.
>
> You make a false analogy, I think.  In my public schooling, at
> least, virtualy everything outside English literature was taught as
> "Learn this," while English lit (and to some extent art and music)
> were taught as "Learn that this is wonderful."  See the diference?

Oh, the teachers were more enthuisiastic about their subjects.  Yeah, 
that sucks.