I was schooled early by South Africa in racism's poison.
But I was schooled in a different era of thought.
I was schooled in this, kind of, how do we make a press release today that embarrasses the opposition?
I was schooled at early HHCL where the simple mantra was to produce advertising that was "different".
Re "A Bedeviling Question in the Cadence of English," by Shashi Tharoor (Writers on Writing, July 30): I was schooled at a private, Catholic school in Bombay.
I was schooled in the importance of obtaining two distinct verifiable sources -- the "Two Source Rule" -- to ensure that a news story was credible and that citizens were being properly informed.
She was always worried that I would go out and not know how to dance or talk to girls and that kind of thing, so she wanted to make sure I was schooled well from that standpoint.
Besides, I was schooled in feminism via riot grrrl culture, so unless it was going to be a radical act that challenged the deeply conservative history of the ritual, probably not for me.
I was schooled in the mainstream education system until I was 16 and, despite being the first person at my school with a disability, I was treated like everyone else.
I was schooled in the far-reaching changes under way several years ago by Eskimos in Alaska, who told me of their amazement at seeing changes in their Arctic village — from melting permafrost to robins (for which their Inupiat language has no word), and even a (shivering) porcupine.
I was schooled in taekwondo by Sarah Stevenson and Lutalo Muhammad, while the boys and girls in one discipline confirmed that, yes, everything we're told about the bedroom shenanigans of thousands of like-minded young athletes eager to blow off post-competition steam in the Olympic village is true.
