On 06/16/10 11:08, Brian Harvey wrote: >> The power tools live in a special cupboard > > You know, I would actually find this all somewhat convincing had you not > neglected to answer the part of my metaphor about "shaming."
Hmmm, good point, I didn't pay much attention to that! > I believe you that with respect > to actual physical power tools your pedagogic goal is that the kids end up > /as regular users/ of power tools, without cutting their fingers off in the > learning process. Your power-tool pedagogy is a weaning-/toward/, if you'll > pardon the torturing of language in that phrase, not a weaning-away. Yes > But the > rhetoric around set-car! and set-cdr! does not have that flavor at all. It's > more like the rhetoric about why we can't just outlaw tobacco outright, but > have to be sensitive to the needs of the already-addicted. Hmmm, perhaps I'm just easily led, but I read it as being a little less insidious than that! ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list Scheme-reports@scheme-reports.org http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports
