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“The truth seems to be that they [teachers of grammar] were victims of a mighty hoax, one of those true belly-rumbling impostures which a workaday world can but seldom afford.”

World Seems Teacher Victim Belly Grammar Hoaxes

Author:Charlton Laird

“I cannot recall a period when I did not draw; and at school, the studies that were distasteful to me, mathematics and grammar , were retarded by the indulgence of teachers who were proud of my drawing faculties, and passed over my neglect of uncongenial subjects.”

School Study Teacher Subjects Proud Periods Draws Mathematics Drawing Faculty Neglect Recalls Grammar Indulgence Retarded Distasteful

Book:Let There Be Sculpture

Source: Let There Be Sculpture

“I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello.”

Moments School Remember Literature Teacher Horror Grammar Old School Melbourne Grammar School Old Music Music Teacher

Author:Anthony Holden

“I remember one English teacher in the eighth grade, Florence Schrack, whose husband also taught at the high school. I thought what she said made sense, and she parsed sentences on the blackboard and gave me, I'd like to think, some sense of English grammar and that there is a grammar, that those commas serve a purpose and that a sentence has a logic, that you can break it down. I've tried not to forget those lessons, and to treat the English language with respect as a kind of intricate tool.”

“I remember in grammar school the teacher asked if anyone had any hobbies. I was the only one with any hobbies and I had every hobby there was... name anything, no matter how esoteric. I could have given everyone a hobby and still had 40 or 50 to take home.”

Ifs Children Stills Matter Home School Remember Names Given Teacher Hobbies Grammar Esoteric Grammar School

Author:Cormac McCarthy

“Having sex with a dead grammar teacher is a violation of past tense usage.”

Past Sex Teacher Grammar Violation Tense Usage Having Sex

Author:Dana Gould