November 5, 2009:
ESL tutor, elderly, earnest, nowhere as smart as her teenaged hispanic pupil, who sits politely astonished by clumsy introductions of trivial logical puzzles.
"There's an old question that goes, 'What came first, the chicken or the egg?'"
Well, of course there is, and probably has been since she was seven or eight years old, back home where learning is taken seriously, and shared without the large spoonful of well-meaning patronization.