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To: Katherine Derbyshire who wrote (24479)	9/20/1998 9:38:00 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 70976

OT Katherine, I'm glad to hear someone else echo this point. Although PC's can be great tools, IMO a sharpened pencil and a good teacher will far outmatch a classroom full of PC's. Although I'm fully invested in semis, I've never understood how kids hooking up to the net will get us better mathematicians or scientists. Unless of course, they are computer scientists;-) BK

To: Katherine Derbyshire who wrote (24479)	9/20/1998 10:03:00 PM
From: Wildstar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

OT I completely agree. Microsoft is pushing their propaganda that computers, specifically the internet, is the only way kids can learn, with their whole "where do you want to go today?" commercials. I see politicians pandering to this type of thinking all the time. In my old high school, the superintendent(who was up for reelection) upgraded all our computers and had a state of the art system set up. The problem was nobody could figure out what to do with them. How do you use the internet to learn literature? Science? Math? Sure computers may slight augment learning but there is nothing like sitting in front of a desk with pencil and paper and struggling with a math problem or having a spirited classroom discussion on MacBeth's tragic flaw.