Eileen Schell Interview

As an aspiring nonagenarian, I object to Eileen Schell’s patronizing remark, “my oldest student is currently 90 years young” (Interview with Eileen Shell, January/February 2004). Attempting to praise old people by calling them young is as illogical and basically bigoted as attempting to praise black people by calling them white, attempting to praise a woman by saying she thinks like a man, or attempting to praise an adjunct by saying he thinks like a tenured professor.

Felicia Nimue Ackerman
Providence, RI

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