Education: Report Card

¶After quizzing 37 "typical" sophomores or. their reading v. TV habits, English Teacher M. Isabelle Hall of the Hope High School in Providence announced that she was about ready to give the whole thing up. "Typical" answers: "I'd rather sit and look than sit and exercise my brain." "Miss Hall, I suffer when I read." "Books give you an idea of how to get into trouble but never tell you how to get out of it." "A masterpiece is something you don't understand." "I'm going to read a book some time. I saw a...

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