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

[Courtney]

Yeah...the "good" ole days...I remember the days when the calculators 1st
came out, not everyone had one and the teachers allowed them which ticked
most of us off because they were so expensive back then that not only the
"wealthy" kids had em...

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*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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