Re: Essential (was Computer) Skills

[George Spagna <gspagna@rmc.edu>]

At 10:59 PM 9/17/98 -0400, Jerry Epstein wrote:
> I cannot take credit for the following. It is a rough paraphrase from
> Arnold Arons some 25 years ago. It is even more true today:
>
> The time is long past when we can teach our students all they need to
> know. The best we can hope for is to put them on their intellectual feet
> so that they have the ability to continue to learn on their own,
> wherever their future lives may take them.

Amen.

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