Scott David Daniels wrote: >I suspect the other way into this is Category Theory, an area I am >afraid I under-appreciate (though some say it is just because I don't >"get it"). > Read through this explanation of Category Theory.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/category-theory/ While not being in a position to approach the concepts described in any serious way, I can - I think - at least appreciate that the ghost of Felix Klein hovers about. The discussion I am having with myself here has to do with modernism and education. My concept of educational reform has much to do with the ghost of Felix Klein, as well...in perceiving a need to have even elementary levels of instruction better informed by the kinds of modernist abstractions with which categories like Category Theory grapple. Whereas I don't think that, in general, technology has any (necessarily) important role to play in such reform - I do think that specific tools - Python certainly among them (with or without my efforts to contribute) can, and probably will. Art. _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
