> -----Original Message----- > From: Kirby Urner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2005 1:12 AM > To: 'Arthur' > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [Edu-sig] Low Enrollments - programming as anti- > intellectualism > > I develop curriculum for a more screen intensive lifestyle. Computers and > digicams are a given. Yes, lack of physical exercise is sometimes a > problem > and needs to be addressed. Using screens a lot doesn't preclude that.
Good for developing hand eye coordination, I've been told. Of course my instincts, when I have been told that, has been to look to find a way to defy physical reality, and reach through cyberspace, to go one on one with the source of that assertion - feeling confident that I can hold my own against anybody getting their exercise with their favorite HCI device. > > Don't paint me as trying to force my curriculum down your throat. I don't > have any investment in making you do as I do. I'm a recruiter, yes, but > that doesn't mean I think others have no rights to the same field. I'm > here > to compete. I relish competition. I don't *want* to be the only game in > town (I'd *hate* that). I have no doubt as to your sincerity and integrity. Moat importantly because I have seen it in action - among other things, defending my right to express myself here despite the extent you might disagree with both my message and the manner in which it is sometimes delivered. I relish fair competition as well. But you cannot ask me to ignore the fact that there are financial forces at work on your side of the aisle that value winning more than fair competition. And it is even more complicated than that - the *job* of these financial forces is to win. I am not one to condemn anyone for doing their job. But it is the job of publicly funded educational institutions to bring the argument back to one fought purely on its merits. So I have no problem going into attack dog mode when I don't see *that* job being adequately performed - it being important that *everybody* concerned do their job. In truth, there is more naivety, awe and ignorance than corruption at work, in my view, that is distorting outcomes. Indeed, some of the technology we are discussing is in fact awe-inspiring. But while being the world's leading proponent of Naïve Programming, I am nonetheless not a proponent of naïve public administration. > > The future is nothing if not surprising, always. I would be surprised if you are wrong, here. Art _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
