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Re: [Phys-L] proportional reasoning, scaling laws, et cetera

On May 17, 2012, at 12:02 PM, John Denker wrote:

... If I occasionally emphasize the importance of not taking everything
at face value, it is not because I disrespect memory, disrespect
tradition, or disrespect stenographers. Rather, it is because we
currently have an educational system that is grotesquely unbalanced
against critical thinking. We need to push back against that, hard.

To what extent is this due to push-button technology, to telegraphic style used in many manuals, (instead of traditional sentences), to texting, etc. ?

Ludwik