On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Timothy Wilson wrote: > <rant class=OT> > While I have the floor I'll take this opportunity to say that almost no > high school physics student will ever see TeX in their academic careers. > Even those in the most advanced high school courses rarely get to the level > in college science or math that would ever expose them to TeX. The > recognition that most students taking high school physics will never take > another physics course *should* make a difference in the way h.s. physics is > taught. > </rant> What are you saying? That most H.S. physics students are losers? That we don't teach enough physics? That not enough people use TeX? ;-) Certainly there's sense in teaching adaptively for the students. But I just got puzzled because your argument started to sound a little like the "Why do I have to learn something if I'm not going to use it directly?" question. Sure, you don't want to try to teach a pig to sing, but there's a difference between a "trained" person and an "educated" person. That's far enough OT -- I'm just not clear what sentiment your expressing -- it's probably not even one I've mentioned! (Happy to discuss off list..) Phil M -- Lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org