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I agree, but I think it depends on the user's needs. This reminds me of my German class in college. On the first day, we learned how to say "who are you." Yeah, great, really useful. But we didn't learn that the words we were actually saying were "What are you called." It seems to me that our instructor was doing what Robin is talking about: teaching us how to perform a task instead of teaching us the process behind that task. If you simply need to know the name of the nearest speaker of German, it's fine. But if you've got 10 more credit hours of German staring you in the face (sigh), you need to learn the process (i.e., what those words you're rattling off really mean, since you'll be using them in other sentences).
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Tracy Boyington tracy_boyington -at- okcareertech -dot- org
Oklahoma Department of Career & Technology Education
Stillwater, OK http://www.okcareertech.org/cimc
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>>> John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com> 07/17/01 03:41PM >>>
Give a man a fish...
I'd rather be given a document that tells me howto do the process,
ten let my imagination apply the process, then be told how to do a
"flavor" of process and not know how to apply it to another process.
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