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- From: rivin@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (Igor Rivin)
- Subject: Re: High Prices of Math Books. I am pissed.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.180025.4108@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
- References: <ng4.725269975@husc.harvard.edu> <1992Dec25.182912.9619@dorsai.com> <1993Jan5.173010.19718@Princeton.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 18:00:25 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan5.173010.19718@Princeton.EDU> bathurst@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Bruce Bathurst) writes:
- >There is an illusion in American society that those who are educated
- >are (or can be) financially secure. Accordingly, there is a lack of
- >concern for the inability of those in the process of educating
- >themselves to buy the books they need.
- >
- >Because of this (I suspect) there is no mechanism, as there is in
- >medicine, for the cost of expensive necessities to be shared by the
- >rest of society. Many students can't buy even basic texts, others
- >sell them back. Students, as a consequence, are not only less
- >educated, but have not learned how to teach themselves, through
- >reading. Those who choose to devote their lives to advancing
- >knowledge in basic fields face the choice of purchasing books or food.
- >
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- There IS another way -- go to the library. I gather that there are a
- couple in Princeton, NJ, courtesy of the rest of society.
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