[ale] Am I the only one that is laughing out load at thisquestion?

[Jeff Lightner]

They did actually have physics and advanced math at my High School and
the last one (my Senior year) actually had a "DP" department but I
didn't have time for that class.

In college they taught me a sub-course on "computer augmented
accounting" which essentially just taught me how to use a key punch
machine - it was the last time I ever saw a key punch machine.

Instructors love it when you interact.   The TA I had at University of
Houston once bemoaned the use of "so" as an adverb.  He said: "There is
no value in saying a lake is 'so' deep when we can tell how deep it is."
I responded: "Yes, but you have to use a SOnar to do it."

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim
Lynch
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 10:05 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] Am I the only one that is laughing out load at
thisquestion?

Mike Harrison wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Greg Freemyer wrote:
>
>   
> They are, but I was dealing with a science teacher that barely kept
one 
> chapter ahead in the book.. almost 30 years ago. I also was ranting
then 
> about Neutrinos and other stuff. It's really only so memorable to me 
> because it's when I really grok'd that most teachers merely occupied 
> space and time. I had some good teachers, but they were few.
>   

I was taught in 4th grade that the phases of the moon were caused by the

shadow of the earth falling on the moon's face.  When I suggested she 
look up the definition of an eclipse, she promptly sent me to the office

and I spent the day on a ladder in the hallway outside of the classroom 
wearing a dunce cap.  Needless to say from that point on, my view of 
education was a bit jaundiced.  Everyone wondered why I hated school so 
much but when I'd try to tell them, they didn't seem to care or didn't 
believe me.

Jim.
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