Kirby , Bottom line -
and it sounds like a terrible thing to say - I am disturbed by your enthusiasm on these subjects. Because I am continually feeling myself asked to accept enthusiasm as a replacement for jugment - in the area of technology and education. Enthusiam may be necessary, but it certainly is not sufficient. I am not voting up or down. I am trying to be an enthusiastic vote for skepticism on these matters. Because that, frankly, is where I perceive the hole in the politic to be - at least at the moment. Can we provide future generations with the realistic possiblity of pursuing *all* options. Let's say we are on the same side. The side of options. The option of concluding that technology is unimportant in the educational process is the one I see closing fastest and most irretrievably. So I concern myself with its advocacy. At least until there is something more reasonable and substantial to discuss. I think I state this concern fairly, reasonably - and sometimes - even without hysteria. But I think I am nonetheless sounding somehow strange. Which I find strange. Art "One of my foreign colleagues gives classes on the esthetics of programming. I advised him to throw away the overhead projector and return to the blackboard. It made him find again the joy of teaching". Edsger Dijkstra _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
