I don't particularly want to prolong this discussion further, given
that some other TIPSters have had their say and evidently no one else
wants to come in on this, but Mike Smith's latest post deserves a
response.
Mike wrote:
>In response to: "It is tiring and unnecessary (I think) to wade
>thr
Hi
"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Personally, I prefer to read thoughts that are expressed as full sentences,
whether on-line, in a paper, or in written work of students. Because cryptic,
point-form comments work for one's own notes or
I read the article.What is the point of all those demeaning expressions?
Please comment.
Michael
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From: Pollak, Edward
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Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2010 12:34 AM
Subject: [tips] The state of American Educati
In response to: "It is tiring and unnecessary (I think) to wade
through a lot of verbiage particularly on a list-serve"
Allen said " I find that a rather remarkable comment, on two counts.
First, no one has to "wade" through any post on this listserv"
First the first statement isn't really remarka
Some teachers in Central Florida thought it was a joke,but apparently one
school district
is offering teachers the opportunity to win one chicken filet sandwich and a
$100 gift card.
Yes one chicken for only the lucky winner,not pne chicken per teacher,and one
gift card
for the lucky winner,and
I personally enjoy the postings of Mike,Allen, and those so -called thesis
posts.Mike does a heck of a job in providing us with appropriate references and
illustrates a very high degree of scholarship.I can also compliment the posts
of the Commonwealth quadrangle-
Chris,James,Stephen,and Allen.
Mike Palij provides the The description of Bilal's art:
|The artwork, titled The 3rd I, is intended as “a comment on the
|inaccessibility of time, and the inability to capture memory and
|experience, the WSJ explains, quoting press materials from the
|museum, which is to feature Bilal’s work amo
P.P.S. Correction.
I wrote:
>Mike again:
>>Stop it you two! If you don't like each other, take it off list!
That should, of course, have been John (Serafin). Apologies to Mike and
John.
Allen Esterson
Former lecturer, Science Department
Southwark College, London
allenester...@compuserve.com
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>>> "Serafin, John" writes:
Sheesh, I quit this list once because of crankiness amongst participants.
I'm on the verge of doing so again.<<<
Every time someone has said "sheesh" to me, I've found them to be cranky.
Bill Scott
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A postscript to my last post:
John Serafin wrote:
>You know, Allen, you regularly remind us not to accept
>anything that someone else has written.
What I have written before is rather more specific than this, along the
lines that one should not accept *assertions" just because one has read
them
On 19 November 2010 Mike Smith wrote:
>It is tiring and unnecessary (I think) to wade through a lot
>of verbiage particularly on a list-serve.
I find that a rather remarkable comment, on two counts. First, no one
has to "wade" through any post on this listserv. As far as I'm aware,
it is not one
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