LOGO-L> Re: Logo &. Right Wing Idiots?

["Andrzej Baczynski" <abkomet@lodz.pdi.net>]

Dear George

>From my far European point of view I'm not sure that You are exactly right.

We are more conservative at our school curriculum. I can not state, is it
better or worse, but I think, it is more important to promote an innovative
thinking than to study some modern skills. I can imagine a lecture on, for
example, an ancient literature may be more creative than studying recent
WWW facilities. It depends on teacher rather than on the topic itself.
I agree detecting the presence of a witch may be not useful today (maybe
when I get married...), but going this way we shouldn't teach history at
all. On the other hand - we can't be sure that some discipline very
important today will be equally  important some years later. We can predict
an importance of math or geometry and we can predict that most of our
computer tools will be obsolete, when our 6-graders finish a school. 
>From this point of view, Mike's fear about eliminating thinking and
replacing it with automatic calculations, spell checking, etc may be right.
(With condition, that training a division algorithm improves thinking
abilities)

The main part of Mike's mail sounds a bit ridiculous. This way of thinking
about government was very popular in my country few years ago, when it was
only one (communist) party and we were made to support our Big Brother from
Kremlin (sorry Olga - we just felt so). This period in our history is
definitively closed, I hope. Now nobody loves beaurocracy still, but if
someone found his representative to be a thieve or liar, he should simply
remain, who was he voted for. 
The best part of Mike's text is:
>   Gentlemen WE are being USED! We are the frogs in the pan of slowly
warming
> water and we are approaching the day when our remaining freedom of speech
and
> our individual rights will be removed. I am really disturbed by what I
hear
> from both the "far right and far left idiots!"

I have checked twice, whether Mike mail from Cuba or North Korea.

Regards,
Andrzej B. Lodz, Poland


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