Re: [tlug] Fortran --> Python (was linux engineer)

[Attila Kinali <attila@example.com>]

On Fri, 8 Jun 2012 11:17:47 +0200
Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com> wrote:

> 2012/6/8 Attila Kinali <attila@example.com>:
> 
> > But Joe Average has not only long lost his curiosity,
> 
> But I'd argue that Joe Average never had much. You're a geek, so
> you're coming from a different tradition. 

Quite to the contrary!
Just look at Fritzli (what's the english equivalent of a childs name?)
or any other small, pre-school child in your vincinity. They are curious!
And a lot too! It's just that most environments tend to kill that curiosity
that we are born with.

If you have a chance read the book "Learning" by Manfred Spitzer.
It gives many insights on how we treat learning these days.
I hope they are not lost in the english translation and that the
translator adapted the examples that are sometimes quite specific
to german speaking europe.

			Attila Kinali

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It is upon moral qualities that a society is ultimately founded. All 
the prosperity and technological sophistication in the world is of no 
use without that foundation.
                 -- Miss Matheson, The Diamond Age, Neil Stephenson