kirby urner wrote: > > The *sounds* modest, yes, plus leaves you free to critique any actual > implementation of a perspective as immodest. Calling for perspective > isn't really doing any work, is just being modest. *Providing* > perspectives > is the name of the game.
PyGeo is interesting work. My efforts to assist in provding VPython a future(lead actually, since no one else has stepped up to the plate) is important work. Immodest enough for you. Feel better. > > Yet when I teach kids in this age group this stuff, mixed with a lot of > math, > they often clamor for more (as do their parents, others guardians -- one of > the dads sat through much of my last class actually). My intuition is that you are an excellent and intuitive teacher. Don't know for sure. > > Geek culture is like a missing ingredient in their diet. Geek culture > seems > *good* in at least *small* doses. But right now, it's still *no* doses, > pretty > much across the board. Just a lot of stereotyping, misleading TV and > movies. > > And I dislike it surrounding the pontificating used to justify Algebra > I, Algebra II, > Geometry, Pre-calc, Calc (in whatever order), all undisturbed fossils > for the ages, > no chance of any Python unless we jump through stupid hoops proving over > and > over we're not just full of snake oil (got some __ribs__ in here too). So much of the Grand Fallooning sounds like snake oil and *is* snake oil, that particularly those trained in mathematics - in the art of plausibility - will react, and over-react. We agree about everything, except that we disagree about everything as well. Art _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig