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From: parnass@ihu1h.UUCP (Bob Parnass, AJ9S)
Newsgroups: net.college
Subject: Re: Does someone REALLY belive this? - (nf)
Message-ID: <396@ihu1h.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-Nov-84 18:11:32 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  9 18:11:32 1984
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    > Someone asks:
    > How can we teach our children to tie
    > their shoes if shoes are no longer tied?
    >  
    > I wonder:
    > Why should we teach our children to
    > tie their shoes if shoes are no longer
    > tied?
    >  
    > Is there some benefit in shoe tieing
    > or manual arthimitic beyond their results?

Why trivialize results?
The result is often of paramount import.

The practical scenario in my original example is: 

	-I'm a patron in a diner, trying to pay my bill
	-the cash register breaks
	-the young cashier can't do the simple arithmetic manually.
	-my time is wasted because I must wait (I've even
	 helped the cashier by doing the arithmetic myself).

	My time is either worth more or less than that of the 
	cashier's, but it clearly has some value.
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