[lbo-talk] More on science

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Mon May 14 23:41:21 PDT 2007


Chuck Grimes wrote:


>What I really want to say is that school is never over. You simply have
>to learn how to educate yourself to a level that you desire or can
>tolerate. It is endlessly humiliating. And I want to add, the specialist is
>often the worst offender of this general principle of education.
>
I learned more about computing by reading Von Neuman and Turing than by reading a lot of more up-to-date specialists. You have to know a subject deeply and broadly to write clearly and comprehensibly about it, and most specialists just don't have that depth and breadth.

Joanna



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