Jim wrote:
> I think Rick that the point of the initial mention of reindeer
> was an analogy. Specifically, your stating that distance
> education is as good as traditional education was analogous to
> someone claiming that reindeer can fly. Most people would ask
> for evidence that reindeer could fly and _not_ put the onus on
> others to prove that they cannot. You might wish to take issue
> with the original premise of the analogy, but such responses as
> the above do not help your case.
But the original post was _not_ a statement by me that dl is as good as
traditional ed. It was a post indicating that the poster clearly saw it as
_inferior_ to traditional forms (a comparison of one of the better rated
dl programs to a "correspondance school" to be precise). Thus, since the
initial judgement came from that source, the evidence of proof lies there
as well. My post was a response which disagreed with that perspective, not
one which initiated a new one.
Rick
