[geeks] Education

[wa2egp at att.net]

>    Wha...? Really?! Horrifying.
>    Heck, I correct "professional" writing here at work with a red pen
> all the time. I even proof-read a friend's book (over and over and over)
> and did it to him -- and he wrote _better_. Some people may think I'm a
> jerk, but there's no substitute for seeing something you considered
> "finished" showing up looking like a scrap of old butcher's paper. :7)
> -wde
> --
> Will Enestvedt
> UNIX System Administrator
> Johnson & Wales University -- Providence, RI

An article was published in the Newark Star Ledger a few years ago where
a Rutgers education professor made that statement about red pens.  It
was photocopied and passed around as the "joke of the day".  There are 
teachers in my school that were taught NOT to use red pens.  It's 
happening....

Bob