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-----Original Message-----
From: John S. Denker [mailto:jsd@MONMOUTH.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 9:07 AM
[snip]
The worse-case scenario is where requirements are set,
textbooks are written, and courses are taught, all by
people who have no idea what's really important. That
happens all too often. I remember in high school we
had a substitute geometry teacher who actually made
light of his own subject, saying in all candor that
he didn't know what the geometry formulas were useful
for. He said he'd never needed to paint a
parallelogram-shaped wall, nor ever bought a
parallelogram-shaped carpet. That shocked me. I'm
still shocked. IMHO a teacher's first duty is to
explain why the subject is important.