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From: laura@hoptoad.uucp (Laura Creighton)
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Subject: Re: Hitler: Why we need a Science of Morality
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Date: Mon, 5-May-86 16:18:30 EDT
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Posted: Mon May  5 16:18:30 1986
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From observing a decade of my mother's grade 8 students, it is not clear to
me that the majority of high school students could learn logic, even if
were a required subject.  What is worse, it is not clear to me that the
bulk of high school teachers could *teach* it.  But then, I remember
*my* grade eight year as a nearly continual battle wioth a math teacher
who was convinced that there was no such thing as negative infinity, 
*by definition* whereas I was certain that there had to be one ...
-- 
Laura Creighton		
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