Hey, they should have met my grandfather. His formal education ended
after Grade 8, on a Maine island in those days if your father died you
went to work! However, he read all his life--I remember him getting up
at 4 a.m. so he could have two hours of quiet with his books--and when
his youngest child went to college, he read every one of her textbooks.
So much for assumptions, they just don't work very well when applied to
human beings.
Nina Osier
Catherine Asaro wrote:
> Pat wrote:
>
> > Being less educated and having a lower reading
> > level do not, in these times, have that much relationship to each
> other.
>
> I have been saddened by the number of readers of my book Catch the
> Lightning that have expressed incredulity that a seventeen year old
> Latina girl without much education could be that intelligent or
> articulate. They should have met some of the kids I knew when I was
> growing up.
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