"the hammer that teachers use….."

[Odessa Dawn]

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"Where does grammar come in? Grammar’s ideal role in education is not as the hammer that teachers use to pound correctness into students’ heads. Grammar is best used as a language that makes it possible to talk about language."

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Does the below statement mean to make students understand?

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"the hammer that teachers use to pound correctness into students’ heads."

 

[emsr2d2]

Not so much to understand, but to make them learn the correct way of doing anything - in this case, using grammar.