Michael Pollak wrote:
>
> On Fri, 11 Jul 2008, sawicky at verizon.net wrote:
> For an intellectual who gets most of
> his knowledge through books it's a real shock to realize just how smart
> and capable people can be who don't read at all. That's what the
> misspelling gets across.
The core evil of u.s. education, is its grounding in the assumption that writing is an index to intelligence.
Carrol