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- From: dal3@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (dale.e.parson)
- Subject: Re: Is Math Hard?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.223047.5672@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
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- References: <1992Nov5.184239.21050@cbfsb.cb.att.com> <6NOV199218493271@comet.nscl.msu.edu> <1992Nov7.031019.147@julian.uwo.ca>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 22:30:47 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov7.031019.147@julian.uwo.ca> roberts@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (Eric Roberts) writes:
- >
- > I have been in the same situation as you. By the time I got
- >to grade 9, I was studying advanced calculus, but I was forced to attend
- >the grade 9 math programm where I was taught arithmetics and basic algebra;
- >similiar in most other subjects. Unfortunately in Canada, it seems to be
- >absolutely impossible to be accepted to university without having a
- >highschool diploma, or get one without spending four years in that
- >institution. It was always my impression, that the situation was difference
- >in the US, for I have heard of people being accepted by the universities
- >(Harvard), without attending highschool at all (for example William James
- >Sidis and Wiener), maybe that is no longer true.
- >
- >
- > Eric
- >
-
- There are U.S. universities that are recruiting home learners & others
- that are discriminating against them. As home learning success stories
- become public knowledge I expect the amount of discrimination to diminish.
- This much I can promise you: home schooling families take learning very
- seriously, working hard at a practical level every day. When we--children
- & parents--decide that college admission is the next step we wish to take
- in our self-directed education, woe to the college administrator who decides
- to stand in our way. It will take a lot more than some small minded
- bureacrats to stop the self-determined educational paths that our children
- have followed into early adulthood. Count on it.
-
-
- Dale Parson, Bell Labs, dale@mhcnet.att.com
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