Subj : Re: Teaching
To   : GEORGE POPE
From : JOE MACKEY
Date : Mon Nov 22 2021 07:10:04

  Cyberpope wrote --

> Amen! I had a slew of books suited to my changing reading level/age, but also a huge shelf of more adulty books

  My father brought a Encyclopedia Britannia which I loved reading.
  I would just grab a volume at random, to start, and read from cover to
cover.  Later I would read it starting with Volume One.
  That disappeared in a move when I was around 13/14.

> Yup. My tv, until I was 12, was limited to watching with my parents whatever they were watching, 

  Same here.  
  Until I was 18, and on my own, there was only one tv in the house.  And
before cable was thought of and only three or four channels.
  Now I don't even have a tv.  Got rid of it years ago.  And I don't miss
it.
 
> Because I was, thank God, raised properly, I did know right from wrong.

  Same here.
 
> First saw & rode a city bus at age 19.

  I guess I was around 10 at the time.  Had a ride to school then get home
on my own.
  Today a 10 year-old riding a bus alone would cause a lot of people to go
into a swoon.

> Naturally, I sat in the first seats I found empty

  I like to ride in back.  That way I can keep an eye on what's going on
around me.

> When older folk, especially witgh canes, entewred the bus, I was up like a shot &6 moving back
 
   At my age that is getting more and more rare.  :)
  
> Personally I think this goes with the loss of religion being a part of modern society/culture.

   Agreed.
   Joe
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