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From: dave@gitpyr.UUCP (David Corbin)
Newsgroups: net.college
Subject: Re: Does someone REALLY belive this? - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 13-Nov-84 08:39:13 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 13 08:39:13 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?
 
Is there a benefit? YES! What about how the mind reacts to learning
ANYTHING new? Be it math, or tieing shoelaces, or telling time. On the
surface, the mind says, "Ok, so I know how to do this or that", but underneath
it has added something to its vast repetoire of skills. Also, hopefully, it
will in some way facilitate learning something else, later. That is, if I learn
to tie my shoes as a child, then later, when I am trying to build a bridge
out of rope and logs, HOPEFULLY, I will have a slightly better advantage in the
way I attack the knot-tying, etc., assuming I have no previous pioneering
experience. Also, with so many people worried about Nuclear devistation,
consider that much of modern day technology might be lost. 

David Corbin 
Georgia Institute of Technology
Box 34034
Atlanta GA 30332
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