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After reading todays message about the Australian conference on "Computers
in University Physics Education" I decided to share the following quotation
from J.S. Miller, as it appeared in Physics Today (July, 1982, page 10).

   ... "This machine business is a curse upon us - anathema ! It robs
   the beauty of physics - it cheats the students - it is a sickness !
   It destroys the humanism the subject posesses. Deliver us from this
   affliction - this plague - this evil monster - which so abuses the
   spirit of physics."

A lot has happen since these strong words were written but many people
still think that teaching with computers is not desirable. I would like
to know what most subscribers (not a random sample of physics teachers)
think about educational advantage and pitfalls of digital technology. It
would perhaps be useful if those of us who have strong feelings about
teachng software (one way or another) expressed themselves BRIEFLY and
explained their positions. I will try to do this next week.

           Ludwik Kowalski        kowalski@apollo.montclair.edu