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Article #80Re: Calculators and Understanding
From: taylor
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 1986 17:30
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 1986 17:30
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This article is from pyramid!utzoo!henry (Henry Spencer)
and was received on Mon Jul 7 15:12:29 1986
> [...assorted comments about how calculators are ruining education...]
I'm told that a couple of centuries ago, it was a mark of an educated
man that he could tell time without mechanical assistance. Nowadays,
most everybody relies on mechanical aids, i.e. wristwatches. Nobody
complains about this degeneration of essential skills.
In a similar vein, somebody once asked Grace Hopper about the purported
"dehumanizing" aspects of computer-mediated communications. Her reply
was "I remember when they said that about telephones".
Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
{allegra,ihnp4,decvax,pyramid}!utzoo!henry
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!decvax!decwrl!pyramid!hplabs!hplabsc!taylor From: taylor@hplabsc.UUCP Newsgroups: mod.comp-soc Subject: Re: Calculators and Understanding Message-ID: <423@hplabsc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 8-Jul-86 13:30:51 EDT Article-I.D.: hplabsc.423 Posted: Tue Jul 8 13:30:51 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 8-Jul-86 23:42:50 EDT Reply-To: hplabs!pyramid!utzoo!henry (Henry Spencer) Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Lines: 16 Approved: taylor@hplabs Reference: <383@hplabsc.UUCP>