ABSTRACT
Several decades ago, I courted a young woman who had latched on to the “new” feminism. We went on dates and enjoyed each other’s company. But, she warned me there was no future because: “A woman needs a man like a fi sh needs a bicycle.” At fi rst I thought this was an item she was repeating from the Miller Analogy test, but I eventually got her point. From the perception of educators, there are probably no two subjects as distant from each other as the English language arts and economics. Nevertheless, just as I tried to convince my prospective paramour that the two genders were hardly as estranged as fi sh and bicycles, I will contend that the economics of education can be usefully mated with the English language arts.
