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- From: mapd1@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Nigel Ling)
- Subject: Re: Not revising - with a twist
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.123435.19339@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
- Organization: University of Sussex
- References: <1k268lINN1ln@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> <ewright.728174075@convex.convex.com> <1k7ncnINNhno@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 12:34:35 GMT
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- In article <1k7ncnINNhno@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> mgcbo@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Charles B. Owen) writes:
- >In article <ewright.728174075@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
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- >>
- >>Those who can, do...
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- >Am I the only one who finds this old saying offensive? I spent over a
- >decade in the computer industry. Now I teach computer science. I can do.
- >I choose to teach now. I find it rewarding.
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- No, I think it not only offensive but rather stupid. Just because
- Shaw (it was him wasn't it?) threw away that little saw, people have
- been coming out with it ever since.
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- >
- >Many famous writers and not so famous writers can do, but also teach in
- >various forms.
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- Indeed so. William Golding, for instance, was a teacher for many years.
- And he managed to do a bit more than teach.
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- Maybe Edward was only joking, but in any case I would modify the saying to
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- Those who can, do, including teach: those who can't quote silly
- remarks
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- Nigel
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