. . . of course there is nothing wrong with USING a tool. Tools are there to make our lives simpler, and easier. BUT when we don't know how the tool works, what do we do without the tool?
I for one, am glad I know how a calculator works, and know how a camera works. A friend recently asked me if it was possible to take photos as good as mine with a fully auto camera. I said sure, but it's going to be extremely hard . . . of course she was talking about an Olymp*s SLR . . . ack!
IL Bill On Sunday, February 15, 2004, at 12:11 PM, graywolf wrote:
I remember a science fiction story. Some undisclosed time in the future there was a University Mathematics Professor who was dismissed as a charlatan because he claimed he had discovered a way to do long division without an electronic calculator which everyone knew was imposible.
Do they still teach long division in school? Not so silly a question, even when I was in highschool they had dropped teaching how to extract roots. Use a slide rule or a table they said.
-- graywolf http://graywolfphoto.com
"You might as well accept people as they are, you are not going to be able to change them anyway."
