Richard Mitchell
Richard Mitchell
Dr. Richard Mitchellwas a professor, first of English and later of classics, at Glassboro State College in Glassboro, New Jersey. He gained fame in the late 1970s as the founder and publisher of The Underground Grammarian, a newsletter of opinion and criticism that ran until 1992, and wrote four books expounding his views on the relationships among language, education, and ethics...
ProfessionTrumpet Player
Date of Birth13 March 1930
computers streets turn worked
I never even worked on (computers) out on the streets -- never even been on the Internet, ... I didn't even know how to turn them on.
shooting
We had to take it inside. The first half, we were all shooting up 3s and they weren't going in.
positive
We're working on a positive leaflet to give to adults, but nothing grim.
confront decided overly
We decided if they would let us march, we wouldn't overly confront them.
educational writing technology
People who cannot put strings of sentences together in good order cannot think. An educational system that does not teach the technology of writing is preventing thought.
educational taken ignorance
In a government institution, there is only one area in which problems are taken seriously, and that is the political. Many of the strange things done in American educationism suddenly become perfectly understandable when we see them not as educational methods but as political maneuvers. We must understand illiteracy, therefore, the root of ignorance and thoughtlessness, as not some inadvertent failure to accomplish what was intended but simply a political arrangement of great value to somebody.