03-13-2015, 03:45 PM
Johnson: "I'm sure there is some fine irrelevant distinction you are making that's programmed in at a level above the Altzheimer's (sic)"
Bear: Hmmm, you don't know what it is, but you know it is fine (correct) and irrelevant (incorrect). I'd guess that people with Alzheimer's probably know how to spell their disease, at least for the first year or two. (And on a tangent, can we agree to shed a tear for Terry Pratchett, who died today at 66 from his Alzheimer's "embuggerance" (his word for it).)
Scott: "the rest seems like rote memorization and not education which I thought was the point"
Bear: As the saying goes, "Education is that which moves from the notes of the professor to the notes of the student without passing through the head of either."
Bear: Hmmm, you don't know what it is, but you know it is fine (correct) and irrelevant (incorrect). I'd guess that people with Alzheimer's probably know how to spell their disease, at least for the first year or two. (And on a tangent, can we agree to shed a tear for Terry Pratchett, who died today at 66 from his Alzheimer's "embuggerance" (his word for it).)
Scott: "the rest seems like rote memorization and not education which I thought was the point"
Bear: As the saying goes, "Education is that which moves from the notes of the professor to the notes of the student without passing through the head of either."