Re: What, Me Think? (was RE: clarification needed)

[Becca Price <becca_price -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

Well, I'm over 40, and I used to know what the 13 stripes stood
for, but can't think of it off hand.  On the other hand, I do
know how to look things up, so I can find out, if I choose. (and
probably will when I'm done with this post.)

more important than facts, IMHO, is the ability to find out the
information.  There is *so* much information that we need to
know today, just to manage our day-to-day lives, and the amount
of information is increasing at an incredible rate.  That's why
a problem we have today was unheard of a few hundred years ago:
how to manage information.  I read once somewhere that at the
time of the American Revolution, it was possible for an educated
person to know just about all there was to know (or at least to
be aware of all the categories of information) - today I don't
think that a reasonably educated person is even aware of all the
possibilities!  Consider how the Dewey Decimal System was once
more than adequate to structure all the categories of knowledge,
and how inadequate it is today.

-Becca
for whom this topic is a hot button


--- Amram Hakohen <amramh -at- dnrc -dot- bell-labs -dot- com> wrote:
> Hell, I've been asking my American-educated co-workers "tough"
> questions:
> 
> - How many states in the US?
> - How many senators from each state?
> - What do the 13-stripes on the flag stand for?
> - What is the most important holiday on the Christian
> calender?
> - Who fought on the side of Allies in WWII? Who were the Axis
> powers? 


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Becca Price
beccap -at- rust -dot- net (primary address)

I love technology; it's coding I can't stand.
(with appologies to Peanuts)

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