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Re: Another mutated variant of the 'PowerPoint makes yo udumb'

• To: David Tolpin <dvd@d...>
• Subject: Re: Another mutated variant of the 'PowerPoint makes yo udumb' story
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• Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 15:42:42 -0500
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David Tolpin scripsit:

> Mathematics is not a knowledge, it is a discipline.

If you don't think learning Latin is a discipline, then I can only conclude
you've never been taught any.  The entire British Empire ran for more than
a century on people who learned Latin because they (or their elders)
believed -- correctly  -- that it was a discipline.  The same is true for
Classical Chinese, multiplying the times by an order of magnitude.

And if you don't think learning to lay bricks changes the way you think,
try laying them.

-- 
First known example of political correctness:   John Cowan
"After Nurhachi had united all the other        http://www.reutershealth.com
Jurchen tribes under the leadership of the      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
Manchus, his successor Abahai (1592-1643)       jcowan@r...
issued an order that the name Jurchen should       --S. Robert Ramsey,
be banned, and from then on, they were all         _The Languages of China_
to be called Manchus."

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