Chuck Tucker (991201a)
In a message dated 11/29/99 10:47:34 PM Eastern Standard Time,
powers_w@FRONTIER.NET writes:
<< You seem not to be considering the possibility that you have some wrong
ideas about the way Ed Ford presents the RTP program (which is the subject
about which I have been writing since the start of this unfortunate
discussion). Is there even a slight chance of that? >>
A very interesting way of stating the issue. I have not tried to state my
"...ideas about the way Ed Ford presents the RTP program..." but rather I
have cited statements from your book and Ed's which describe the program. If
you are claiming that Ed no longer uses his books for presenting the program
than, you are correct; I don't know how the program is presented currently.
But if Ed still uses his books to present his program and asks users of his
program to follow his instructions for the program, then there is very little
chance I have misstated the program unless I did not copy the words correctly
from those books. I am a very poor typist so there is a chance I have missed
a word or two.
The part of the program I mentioned in the previous post was the use of the
series of questions which are devised to make the hearer think. These
questions are described in Ford (1997: 42-51) in a chapter titled "Techniques
for Getting Children to Think." Ed states quite clearly that if one does not
use these questions in the specified sequence then he/she is not using the
RTP. My point was that it is not correct to state that the "chosen"
statement is made without the other statements (and the answers to each of
them). If Ed has stopped using that series of questions in the way he
specified in that chapter then I have mischaracterized his program.
Regards,
Chuck