Re: Apple II: Second Best Tech Product of All Time!

[heuser.marcus@freenet.de]

On Apr 15, 5:19 am, Charlie Springer <R...@regnirps.com> wrote:
>
> One of our math teachers was told this year not to teach the pythagorian
> theorem to high school sophomores because they were going to "discover it"
> for them selves near the end of their junior year. The same goes for concepts
> in linear algebra and trig. In other words, the average student is expected
> to discover things that took 2,500 years or more of the best minds on the
> planet.
>
> BTW, we don't call them students anymore. They are to be called "learners".
> Kind of presumptuous isn't it? So now some are what I call "reluctant
> learners."

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Marcus