In response to Peter Lopez Taran wrote this: <<Actually, Peter, quite a few people on this list at least come from what would be called by people with PhD's as 'disadvantaged backgrounds'. I grew up working in a printery, actually, from age 11 to 16 while attending school.>>
One of the admirable things about the United States of America as it has been historically is that many of its Ph.d's come from what people without the degree call "disadvantaged backgrounds"One such Ph.d., who I've known all my life, comes from a home with immigrant parents who struggled with English, and for him English was a second and hard-earned language. His father, a tailor, had not one day of schooling himself; his mother 3 years of schooling in the old country. During the depression the father had to send the children away to relatives, since he could not support them. Such stories, common in this country, feature opportunities offered by "public" schooling and "public" charity (now called "welfare"), with books and study made available by "public" libraries, and these experiences of the public and the social influence those like him who see sharing--the shared book, the shared classroom the shared computer--as a critical need of those who are not yet able to afford books and tutors and technologies of their own. Steve Eskow [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
