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- From: wkl1@Ra.MsState.Edu (Wing-Keong Loke the consummate chronic prevaricator)
- Subject: Re: What can we have for an educational system?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.091216.19174@ra.msstate.edu>
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- References: <1992Nov16.143453.22123@news.unige.ch> <BxwrDA.6ns@quake.sylmar.ca.us> <hdev.722131064@dutiag>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 09:12:16 GMT
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- In article <hdev.722131064@dutiag> hdev@dutiag.tudelft.nl (Hans de Vreught) writes:
- >
- >Good doctors make less errors than bad ones, but don't forget they all make
- >errors. But hack, sometimes you need one of them, so you have to go to them.
- >Even a bad one knows more of medicine than you do and any doctor can do the
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >simple stuff.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >--
- >Hans de Vreught | John von Neumann:
- >hdev@dutiba.twi.tudelft.nl | Young man, in mathematics
- >Delft University of Technology (TWI-ThI) | you don't understand things,
- >The Netherlands | you just get used to them.
-
- Unfortunately, many of us would say the underlined above is
- not true for bad teachers. Many of us "ignorant" folks really can
- do without a bad teacher even if we needed teching. (The smiley should
- be here, but in view of the sombre nature of the topic...)
-
- Wing
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