Re: [Phys-l] Premed Requirements Commentary

[Ludwik Kowalski <kowalskil@mail.montclair.edu>]

On Sep 20, 2006, at 12:20 PM, Bernard Cleyet wrote:

> Ludwik!
>
> I don't understand:
>
> People who know which buttons to push are often
> much more effective than those who think.
>
>
>
> You're not serious?
>
> bc, who knows it's the thinkers that design the buttons.
>
> Ludwik Kowalski wrote:
>
> > On Sep 19, 2006, at 11:07 AM, Stefan Jeglinski wrote:
> >
> > > . . . Add to this the current [premed] controversy, and today's
> > > environment of administrators looking for profit centers in every
> > > corner,
> > > occurs to me that there is a further but unstated real danger to
> > > doing away with courses such as physics or calculus . . . Perhaps 
> > > there
> > > is pressure of this nature anyway, but taking this idea (eliminating
> > > the
> > > premed physics requirements for example) to the next level could
> > > bring an avalanche of departmental closures. And how many
> > > administrators would be just fine and dandy with this?
> >
> > At the next level they will say that artificial intelligence is better
> > than real intelligence. People who know which buttons to push
> > are often much more effective than those who think.

You are right, Bernard, thinkers design buttons and scientists make 
medical practice more effective. I wrote what some administrators might 
say in the future. Sorry for not making this clear.

Ludwik Kowalski
Let the perfect not be the enemy of the good.