> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kirby Urner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Behalf Of Arthur
> > > The school I attended in Rome focused on eating utensils quite a bit -
> -
> > > British school, there's a right way to tilt your bowl when you eat
> soup.
> >
> > There is?
> >
>
> Yes: tilt it *away* from you.
Can your pinky finger be just anywhere? Hope not.
> Definitely manners are used to enforce class. If you haven't been to the
> "right schools" it shows immediately, when you pick up the wrong fork.
> The
> servants all notice and blab about it below decks ("did you see that
> *American*?").
There are those who may have been at the right schools, taking the
opportunity to do the wrong things. Fuller was a drop-out, I think.
> I'm doing a Bucky: Universe is technology, technology is Universe -- he
> made no distinction between human and non. In one sense, we're entering
> an
> age of high tech. In another sense, it's *always* been high tech.
>
> Poster: picture of a nautilus shell. Caption: "High Tech: It's not
> just
> where we're heading, it's where we're coming from."
I heard a recent quote from a leading AI expert and advocate noting that the
best we can do is a triviality compared to the brain of an ant. Personally,
I don't suspect we are going anywhere in particular. We're futzing, though
gloriously.
>
> > >
> > > Now that computers have entered the picture, I see them as ubiquitous,
> > > and important to start practicing on early.
> >
> > That's the standard line of thinking. I know it well. And reject it,
> hook
> > line and sinker.
> >
>
> And I accept it. I see many (not all) classrooms with computers at each
> desk, and lessons taking place using keyboards and screens. This goes for
> English, history, geography, languages, art, music, not just math, or
> science.
You are expressing CP4E and the extension to its approach as I have always
understood it.
My position has been consistent.
So you will have to continue to bear with my attempts to sabotage your
vision as best as I can. Hopefully continuing with the (generally) good
nature you tend to demonstrate in the face of those attempts.
Art
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