Re: (HUMOR) "No Jews"

"Marvin Margoshes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> "Arthur Kamlet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > Leon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > >"Eliyahu Rooff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> > >> I'm afraid that in politics, business or modern academia, the safest
>  and
> > >> surest thing is to assume any and all listeners have the same
>  vocabulary
> > >> that most of us had back in the 5th grade, and that anything beyond
>  that
> > >> will certainly be misunderstood.
> > >
> > >No. I tutor in our local high school. Assume the TEACHERS have a 5th
>  grade
> > >vocabulary. The students range from roughly where we were in 3rd grade to
> > >10th. The most frequently used words and phrases in conversation are
>  "like",
> > >"y'know", "right?" and the highest count goes to "UM".
> > >
> > >UMMM. I'm taking, like, English lit this semester, right? So the teacher,
> > >y'know, asks us to read a whole book. I'm. like, freaked out. So, um, I
>  go
> > >to see her and she's like wild. She tells me, like, I gotta read the book
>  or
> > >I don't pass, y'know?. UMM. I don't want to tell my Dad I, like, lost the
> > >book, because then he will freak out, y'know? And he'll, like, ground me
>  and
> > >maybe take away the Navigator he bought me, right?
> >
> > Sure makes it easy to write a 500-word paper.
> > -- 
> >
> > __
> > Art Kamlet     ArtKamlet @ AOL.com   Columbus OH    K2PZH
> 
> I don't know what generation you come from, but I bet it was subject to the
> same sort of complaints about young people.  When I graduated from high
> school (1943), I became part of only half the US population that had that
> much education.  The army unit I joined included several soldiers who were
> illiterate.  And I often hear folks my age talking about how good education
> was then.
> 
> The grass is always greener in memory.

I'm sure that not everybody was educated then, as you say.  But I'm also
sure that those illiterates you knew didn't expect to have a place in
college reserved for them, or a responsible position in a business.