On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 21:41:39 GMT, Ed Rasimus
wrote:

I was never a believer in the "Screamer" method--I always found it
much more effective to mutter softly, just above the level of
audibility regarding the student's skill, intellect, breeding,
parentage, education, probable pending demise, and potential for
languishing the next ten years or so in a missile silo in N. Dakota.

Ah, the "Fulton Sheen Gambit": Speak very softly forcing them to pay
attention lest they miss some part of the "discussion"!! :-)

When you could see the tears running down the front edge of the oxygen
mask and hear the quiet sobbing in the headset you knew you were at
the top of your game.

Indeed.

Bill Kambic
Haras Lucero, Kingston, TN
Mangalarga Marchador: Uma Raça, Uma Paixão