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To: Wildstar who wrote (24481)	9/20/1998 11:46:00 PM
From: Katherine Derbyshire	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

OT In the hands of a knowledgeable teacher, the Internet can tremendously augment any school system's resources. But too many schools declare computers a magic bullet and spend vast sums on them without any clear pedagogical purpose. Worse, the money goes into computers at the expense of more clearly useful things. $1000 for books seems to me to be much more worthwhile than $1000 for a PC. (Just for grins and giggles, see how many paperback copies of your favorite Great Classics $1000 will buy at Amazon. I got 250 copies of Shakespeare's great tragedies--Lear, Macbeth, Hamlet, and Romeo and Juliet. And that's without a quantity discount.) Katherine