> Moratorium, at least until we get our heads on straight. > > Art >
OK, Art, much clearer that time. Amazing what a change in frequency will do. I want to back up and start earlier: there's not really a problem here, with women and math. They're good at it, period. In all dimensions. They just have a different trick set than boyz, because, like boyz, they've been around the block a number of times, but a lot of them were different blocks. We're not two species, as biologists understand the term, but those from Venus from Mars type books sell well for a reason: we're a somewhat different mix of ethnologies, on top of being different genetically. We're rather different distros of a same OS (however, the same could be said for ourselves as individuals -- we're unique on several different levels, yet have in common our human nature (although existentialists argued against there being one)). As a boy, I'm looking at a different rebalancing act: CS infuses math with new blood, changing its sex appeal in the process, and pretty much erasing the so-called "gender gap" -- however at a cost of making what boyz and girlz learn tomorrow, in terms of content-wise distance from what you learned when you and I were little, pretty vast. GPS starting 2nd grade, with earth.google.com. Stellarium. Celestia. You and I picked it up from reading, then looked up and saw light pollution and forgot the constellations. We were ignorant, and then we died. Cheerily, Kirby _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig