Mark Twain said it much better, see his essay: "English as She is Taught." This is a collection of things schoolchildren have written, with appropriate commentary: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ There are a good many donkeys in theological gardens. Every sentence and name of God must begin with a caterpillar. To find the number of square feet in a room you multiply the room by the number of the feet. The product is the result. Climate lasts all the time and weather only a few days. The men employed by the Gas Company go around and speculate the meter. Inertia is that property of bodies by virtue of which it cannot change its own condition of rest or motion. In other words, it is the negative quality of passiveness either in recoverable latency or insipient latescence. Girls are very stuck up and dignefied in their manner and be have your. They think more of dress than anything and like to play with dowls and rags. They cry if they see a cow in a far distance and are afraid of guns. They stay at home all the time and go to church on Sunday. They are al-ways sick. They are al-ways funy and making fun of boy's hands and they say how dirty. They cant play marbels. I pity them poor things. They make fun of boys and then turn round and love them. I don't beleave they ever kiled a cat or anything. They look out every nite and say oh ant the moon lovely. Thir is one thing I have not told and that is they al-ways now their lessons bettern boys.