[P1] iBook article in the NYT

[david]

On Friday, March 7, 2003, at 12:40  AM, Charles Martin wrote:

> Please, carefully go through your sigs (that's usually where the 
> problem lies, and in the case of yours above it's clear that this is 
> the problem) and change them to PLAIN TEXT. I had a problem exactly 
> like this in one of my sigs until I looked more carefully and 
> discovered that the apostrophes and quotemarks weren't plain text but 
> "curled." Changing that solved the problem.

ack! That was one of two sigs not ‘plain texted’ Better now?

What I wrote was:

How you jump to the impression that we are talking about letting 
someone slide through is beyond me. Perhaps you are example of someone 
whose primary learning style isn’t reading? Note that I said, and I 
quote myself:

“...even among the literate, learning by reading as the *dominate* 
learning style is not common.”

We aren’t talking about sliding through. We are talking about utilizing 
every method possible to help someone learn. If I give the average 
*literate* student a chapter to read, he will retain about 45% of the 
information. If I add diagrams and pictures (where appropriate) perhaps 
a film clip and other appropriate learning experiences I can boost 
retention to over 90%. Now, am I dumbing it down here? I think not.

I’m not talking about telling people they don’t have to read. Far from 
it. Although society as a whole certainly seems to be telling kids 
reading isn’t important, I am not part of that crowd.

david
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Good qualities are easier to destroy than bad ones, and therefore
uniformity is most easily achieved by lowering all standards.
  ~~ Bertrand Russell

David