by Pete77 » Fri Jun 17, 2011 3:51 am
Pete77 wrote:Tcm2007 wrote:In some ways he has a point, thank heavens. I went to a school which would have been abolished in the 60s by cutting edge educationalists if it had been on the soft South. It was, in the 80s.
Whereas I went to a private primary school in the south called a PNEU from age four to eight in the trendy late 1960s that seemed to have dangerously modernist views on things like formal grammar and neat handwriting not being important but it simply being important to express yourself. They probably have a lot to answer for................
And now some 40 years after I left that school I have finally discovered that PNEU stands for Parents National Education Union and that the concept was founded by Charlotte Mason back in the latter part of the 19th century. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Mason
I believe my first form teacher at this school noted that I always liked to do things in my own way and at my own pace rather than be told how to do them or when to have them done but that I was always successful in reaching my goals in the end in my own particular way. In personality I am also incredibly like my maternal grandfather who like me also lost most of his hair by his early 30s. Our genetic inheritance usually accounts for a great deal of who we are even though the environment which we are brought up and educated in also makes a significant contribution.I note that your most recent posts have had much shorter sentences; if you don't feel able to create compound sentences properly, this is very sensible. Keep it up.
For someone brought up in the north you are quite good at playing the role of an intellectually smug and self satisfied southern snob.
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