Schools, etc. (was Re: "Dummies" books (was ...))

[Doug Luurs]

*LAUGHS* .. Oh please .. That brings back memories of the OLE days.
(I had one of those calc'r too..hehe)

Another Funny thing is .. I still have my slide rule! 

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Fairlight wrote:
[...]
> If someone can't handle that elementary logical progression of 
> thought, I don't trust them near anything more complex than the pocket

> calculators that banks give out as freebies--certainly not a 
> programmable graphing calculator like a TI-60 or HP-48.
> 
> And as for math, that's the sole reason I never got a CS degree.  I 
> failed pre-calculus in high school and gave up higher math as a bad 
> lot.  As CS was considered an engineering degree at my university, 
> there was no way in hell I thought I could make it through five 
> semesters of calculus.
[...]

I was actually talking about this sort of thing the other day with Laura
and her sister.

When I was in 7th grade, hand-held calculators were just starting to
come into the hands of "ordinary people", and I actually bought one for
my 13th birthday.
<http://www.datamath.org/BASIC/DATAMATH/ti-2500-3.htm>  (Hey, us math
geeks gotta start early, you know.)  This was also the last year that
they tought how to use the slide rule in math.  Soon thereafter, the
school implemented a "no calculators during tests" rule, since it was
considered "cheating".

By the time I got to college, the entire attitude had changed.
Calculators were no longer a problem, as the professors were more
interested in "do you know the proper formula to use, and how to use it"
rather than if you knew how to do long division.

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