Re: Worry, worry . . . about the right problem!!

Ken Goodman (kgoodman who-is-at u.arizona.edu)
Fri, 18 Dec 1998 16:39:24 -0700

Many years ago, while still a grad student at UCla a wrote a parody to
John Henry in which JH was not a "steel driving man but a teacher
engaged in a contest with a teaching machine brought in to replace him.
He loses the competition but dies trying. Here are the final two verses:

They buried John Henry on the school yard,
Which is not the usual case,
but the board of education thought it would be nice
to have at least one teacher round the place.

Yes they buried John Henry on the playground.
but his grave cannot be seen,
because instead of a stone to mark his final resting place,
They put a baseball coaching machine.
Poor John's underneath that infernal machine.

-- 
Kenneth S. Goodman, Professor, Language, Reading & Culture
504 College of Education, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ     
         fax 520 7456895                      phone 520 6217868


These are mean times- and in the mean time 
We need to Learn to Live Under Water