From: Wade T. Smith (wade.t.smith@verizon.net)
Date: Thu 22 May 2003 - 19:15:37 GMT
On Thursday, May 22, 2003, at 02:57 PM, memetics-digest wrote:
> And what happens when a roomful of people are given a sheet of paper
> with mathematics problems on them and the instructions to calculate
> them mentally and write their answers down on the bottoms of their
> pages? Nothing [....]
Exactly nothing, unless all of them know how to read and how to do math
and then, how to write.
Exactly nothing unless the cultural venue has been prepared and they've
been performers and observers within it.
Come on....
- Wade
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