I have been seeing this a lot in truck driving school. Some of the instructors are real back seat drivers, they correct you before you do anything. Some are a bit better, they correct you while you are doing something. The one I had yesterday let you drive the truck. He did not comment on ineptness, after all we are just learning (his own comment), if we made a mistake he would comment on how to do it better after the situation was over and you were able to listen to him safely. The only time he jumped in right away is when we did something unsafe. Excellent teacher.
Unfortunately, for me I know enough to know just how badly I am doing so far. Ciao, Graywolf http://pages.prodigy.net/graywolfphoto ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Admittedly someone being published in a magazine should be willing to be proof read. But I read your story quite different from the interpretation you put on it. I think that woman knew quite well that she was a bad writer, she was just defensive. Tired of being corrected all the time, and probably tired of being corrected by the *same* people all the time. (Been there, done that.) So she ended up hiding her work to avoid constant correction -- to avoid feeling "put down" and to avoid feeling bad about herself. Pure human nature. I have yet to meet a person who likes being corrected all the time. Sometimes yes, all the time, or fairly frequently, no. And some can't even handle being corrected infrequently.
