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Rene Kragh Pedersen
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Apparently my clothes are defective.
- Dilbert.
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- To: "Douglas S. Oliver" <dsoliver@earthlink.net>
- Subject: Re: Calculating e
- From: Rene Kragh Pedersen <u971168@daimi.aau.dk>
- Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 09:43:32 +0100
- Organization: DAIMI - Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark.
- References: <CALC-TI%1998030303141839@PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM> <34FBBDA6.2781@daimi.aau.dk> <34FBC0E5.EDD6A403@earthlink.net>
Douglas S. Oliver wrote: > > I couldn't agree more. Let's keep in mind here that the US had the lowest > achievement in math and science in the world along with South Africa, Lithuania, > and a fourth. Denmark and Sweden were at the top, if I remember correctly. No wonder, the math here (in Denmark, at the university, first year) is getting so theoretical we have a hard time keeping up! :-) > There was a severe drop after elementary school, where the US was among the top > nations! It's really too bad. America has the means to give its young a good education, yet I meet a lot of frightfully dumb (in terms of linguistics and common knowledge - the way they express themselves in general) Americans every day I spend in contact with the 'net. It takes a lot of intelligent ones to outweigh the PR made by just a few nuisances. Most people here a more and more prone to jumping to the assumption that Americans are generally stupid. A sad notion, don't you think? > The reward is learning itself; not everything you learn need be > immediately useful. If you look at the history of mathematics, most discoveries > remained useless for a very long period of time until someone got an idea of how > to use the information. Children normally know how to count, but they still need > to learn how to add. I say hurray for the nobel "e". [...] Well spoken! I am with you all the way! Regards, -- Rene Kragh Pedersen ------------------------------------------------------------------ Apparently my clothes are defective. - Dilbert.
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