Catherine Egan's Blog (1)

I recently attended a seminar in Australia where the speaker conveyed, through over-acted theatrics, the notion that grammar is a "means to an end" and "not a thing in itself." He qualified his 'indepth' assertion through a neurological diagnosis: "brain numbingly boring." However, reluctantly, he admitted that this "incredibly boring" set of rules is undergoing a rebirth in primary and secondary school teaching. However, as a consequence of its absence from the curriculum for over thirty years… Continue