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wish every school still used the device. It is by diagramming that we gain understanding of the bones of a sentence, how the clauses are hinged, where the ligaments attach. The pupil who learns to diagram will not grow up to write, “Walking past the shabby beggar on the sidewalk, my wallet suddenly felt uncomfortably heavy.”
Latin is important. The aspiring writer who learns even a little Latin is not likely to thank a hostess for inviting my husband and I to the party.
Little remains of the subjunctive mood in English, but the rules for use of the subjunctive ought to be learned anyhow. Then the rules may be discarded at a writer’s informed discretion.
That is what I am getting at. We have to do our scales. This is true in every field, not only in the arts. . Golf, tennis, bowling, baseball - the best athletes learn their fundamentals. Stravinsky became a master of dissonance, but he mastered harmony first.
The foolish bureaucrat at the NEA said that teaching students to draw “stifles creativity.” Well, sure. If the art of teaching is badly prac
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