NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #16/NN_1992_16.iso/spool/sci/math/9663

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From: [e-mail] (HARDY j g steeve)
Newsgroups: sci.math
Subject: Re: An interesting limit problem.
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Date: 30 Jul 92 14:57:54 GMT
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    I just finished reading this little thread and I must admit
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    For instance, very soon computers will be capable of
correcting not only grammar and spelling but style very efficiently,
already some software do it quite nicely. Would this mean that we
could therefore slack off on learning the basic grammar?

    Tools in themselves are not to blame, I think it is the
general attitude towards learning which should be addressed. I was
shocked to learned a few months ago that in Quebec (Canada) where the
education is free up to the college level and extremely subsidized at
the university level that we still have a 40% high school drop out
rate (55% apparently with the male population) (don't quote me on
these figures however but they sound quite alarming even if they are
100% off).

    I guess I would basically agree that these tools in general
should be taught or used but definitely not in the beginning phases.

                        Steve.

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