How to Survive in Your Native Land by James Herndon

Author:James Herndon [Herndon, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Child sometimes remembers flax.

Nice kid.

Child can't remember flax.

Child is black and/or deprived.

Child digs flax, but inadvertently says "chili-dog" instead.

Brain-damaged?

Child don't dig flax a-tall.

Reluctant learner.

I think you could make up an entirely new Achievement Test, doing away with expensive and tedious vocabulary and graphs and reading comprehension, doing away with special pencils for IBM scoring and doing away with filling in all those rows. Just pass out a sheet with the word flaxprinted on it in big letters and count the seconds it took for a kid to raise his hand. That would tell you everything that an Achievement Test is designed to tell you.

Even in the Victory Gardens of 1942 America (where such an outlandish name as Swiss Chard became part of my experience, growing non-stop in the back yard), no one was ever known to grow flax, no one saw flax sprouting under the eucalyptus trees, no newspaper articles were written about anyone raising flax in the vacant lots, no war hero mentioned flax as contributing to the war effort. It remained, like Learning, a monopoly of the schools.

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