🚀 go-pugleaf

On Nov 6, 4:13 pm, John Fields <jfie...@austininstruments.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Nov 2009 14:35:10 -0800 (PST),Bill Sloman
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> <bill.slo...@ieee.org> wrote:
> >On Nov 5, 3:58 pm, John Fields <jfie...@austininstruments.com> wrote:
> >> On Thu, 5 Nov 2009 04:56:33 -0800 (PST),Bill Sloman
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> >> <bill.slo...@ieee.org> wrote:
> >> >On Nov 5, 5:15 am, "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terr...@earthlink.net>
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> >> >> John Fields wrote:
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> >> >> > On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 15:59:20 -0800 (PST),Bill Sloman
> >> >> > <bill.slo...@ieee.org> wrote:
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> >> >> > >My "unique" talents were recognised for what they were worth. I'd
> >> >> > >prefer to be working at the moment, but there are enough good
> >> >> > >electronic engineers around that society isn't going to founder for
> >> >> > >want of my contribution.
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> >> >> > ---
> >> >> > Actually, I think society is probably less likely to founder because of
> >> >> > the lack of your "contribution". ;)
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> >> >>    So much for Bill's lame claims on aus.electronics that he's educating
> >> >> people on the sci.electronics groups.
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> >> >Some people aren't easy to educate, and both you and John Fields would
> >> >seem to fall into that catagory.
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> >> ---
> >> If, by "education", you mean hitching my wagon to your star, then I'd
> >> much prefer something other than a white dwarf.
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> >Education is getting people to think for themselves in a useful way.
> >It isn't about hitching anybody's wagon to someone else's wagon train.
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> Only trouble with that definition is that for people to be able to think
> in a useful way requires them to follow your lead and believe the way
> you do.

Not necessarily. There are a variety of ways of thinking for yourself
in a useful way. You don't seem to have mastered any of them.

>In other words, by hitching their wagon to your wagon train and
> heading for the same destination; one example of which would be to never
> use a 555.

I've never said that one should never use a 555 - I've merely pointed
out that in almost all situations there are now better alternatives.

> That, of course, presumes you do have a wagon train, and I seriously
> doubt whether you do.

You were claiming that my view of "education" would involve your
hitching your wagon (which I seriously doubt you have) to my "star"
whatever that might be. I adjusted the analogy by substituting an
equally figurative wagon train for your "star", but since I was
engaged in rejecting the idea that education involves leaders and
followers, I wouldn't be offering to let you hook your wagon to my
wagon train even in the remote event that I came to possess a wagon
train in Texas.

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Bill sloman, Nijmegen