GS Chandy
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Re: Why schools used to be better
Posted:
Mar 6, 2013 1:08 AM
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Lou Talman posted Mar 2, 2013 10:34 PM:
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> Because so few humans undertake any endeavors.
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I do, I think, understand the sense in which you make this assertion - but: I believe that (at least in a simplistic way) we're all performing lesser or greater 'endeavors' all the time (in some way or another):
- -- Every day, we get up; perform ablutions; do various other things, from getting breakfast to working on a whole number of small objectives (endeavors).
- -- Every human being is always *endeavoring to do something or the other* all through his/her life - and so is every group of human beings. (Not that the individuals or groups are actually endeavoring to do worthwhile things; or performing their endeavors effectively).
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The rest of Lou Talman's response appears below:
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> On Fri, 01 Mar 2013 13:46:02 -0700, Robert Hansen
> <bob@rsccore.com> wrote:
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> > On Mar 1, 2013, at 2:52 PM, Louis Talman
> <talmanl@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> Here I must disagree. Mathematics has been, is,
> and will remain,
> >> central to human endeavor; it is one of only two
> >>effective tools we
> >> have for manipulating ideas.
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> > How can something be "central to human endeavor" if
> so few humans posses
> > the ability?
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> > Bob Hansen
> >
--
> --Louis A. Talman
> Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences
> Metropolitan State University of Denver
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> <http://rowdy.msudenver.edu/~talmanl>
Message was edited by: GS Chandy
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