I think it was like that also in the pre 67 Israel. Ely
2009/9/8 Jonathan Ben Avraham <y...@tkos.co.il> > Hi Arieh, > I have edited your post below slightly to exactly match the Seattle public > school system in the 60's of last century. Except for the text in brackets > ([]) the rest is identical. > > - yba > > > On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, Arie Skliarouk wrote: > > Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 13:58:14 +0300 >> From: Arie Skliarouk <sklia...@gmail.com> >> To: ILUG <linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il> >> Subject: Re: eTextBooks (for kids) >> >> Hi, >> >> In [socialistic USSR] capitalist Seattle public school system 1961, school >> books were not bought each year. Instead pupils >> had to take them from their's school library for the coming year and >> return >> them at end of the year. Each book had "worn out" level marked on cover of >> the book and one had to be careful not to wore out the book too much >> during >> the year. As a penalty for lost or unusable book, the student had to buy a >> new book for the library. To draw or mark text in the book was a big >> no-no. >> All books had hard-cover and had strong binding for durability. Every >> student was required to put the book he got into special plastic boundary. >> If a course required pupils to draw on printed material (like letters in >> the >> first form), the pupil had to buy addendum personal notebook he had to >> draw >> in. I remember I used books with 15-20 name-year pairs in it. >> >> Needless to say, all books were [written] approved by a department in the >> Ministry of Education, and [not] private author benefited from the >> authorship. >> >> After all there were some good economy tactics in the [socialism] >> capitalism that IMHO should be applied to capitalism [Israeli socialism] >> (albeit forcefully)... >> >> -- >> [Arie] yba >> >> > -- > EE 77 7F 30 4A 64 2E C5 83 5F E7 49 A6 82 29 BA ~. .~ Tk Open > Systems > =}------------------------------------------------ooO--U--Ooo------------{= > - y...@tkos.co.il - tel: +972.2.679.5364, http://www.tkos.co.il - > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > >
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