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- From: bevan@cs.man.ac.uk (Stephen J Bevan)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: High Prices of Math Books. I am pissed.
- Message-ID: <BEVAN.93Jan6215256@panda.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 21:52:56 GMT
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- In-reply-to: gjm11@cus.cam.ac.uk's message of 6 Jan 93 15:11:49 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan6.151149.7824@infodev.cam.ac.uk> gjm11@cus.cam.ac.uk (G.J. McCaughan) writes:
-
- There is much to be said for providing education on equal terms for
- all, or at least for discriminating on the basis of ability rather
- than of wealth. And it can be done without bankrupting the
- government; the UK has had such a system for ages, and it has
- worked all right.
-
- I think the current government might disagree with your analysis, or
- they wouldn't have introduced a partial loans scheme to save
- themselves money. As to the subject line: each new intake of students
- complains about the price of books (I'm sure I did). If you can't
- afford a book, borrow it from a friend, club together with others and
- buy one copy between you or make friends with a rich student and
- borrow all their books :-) Alternatly try asking a faculty member or a
- graduate student if they are willing to lend out their books.
- Personally I'm not so keen on this since the some of the books I
- lent out came back looking rather worse for wear, but with enough
- begging and promises to treat the book with reference, you might get
- lucky.
-
- bevan
-