Re: [Phys-l] Premed Requirements Commentary

[Jack Uretsky <jlu@hep.anl.gov>]

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					Jack (vive les boutons!)


On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Bernard Cleyet wrote:

> Ludwik!
>
> I don't understand:
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> People who know which buttons to push are often
> much more effective than those who think.
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> You're not serious?
>
> bc, who knows it's the thinkers that design the buttons.
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> Ludwik Kowalski wrote:
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> > On Sep 19, 2006, at 11:07 AM, Stefan Jeglinski wrote:
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> > > . . . 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.
> >
> > Ludwik Kowalski
> > Let the perfect not be the enemy of the good.
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