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• We want to create an environment automatedly.
• Pascal n. An Algol-descended language designed by Niklaus Wirth on the CDC 6600 around 1967-68 as an instructional tool for elementary programming.
  This language, designed primarily to keep students from shooting themselves in the foot and thus extremely restrictive from a general-purpose-programming point of view, was later promoted as a general-purpose tool and, in fact, became the ancestor of a large family of languages including Modula-2 and Ada (see also bondage-and-discipline l summed up by a devastating (and, in its deadpan way, screamingly funny) 1981 paper by Brian Kernighan (of K&...
• The purpose of education should be to provide students with a value system, a standard, a set of ideas.
  ot to prepare them for a specific job....
• The following appeared in a letter to the editor of a local newspaper.
  "Too much emphasis is placed on the development of reading skills in elementary school....
• ROG** writes > ...who have no clue about reality. Nothing could compare with > the beauty of the real world around us and you should work as hard > at preserving the environment and making the world safe for our progeny as > you do at hiding in your computer screens.
  I bet you couldn't > read a story from alt.sex.bondage without getting an erection....
• The following appeared in a newsletter about education policy.
  'The average annual earnings of high school dropouts are significantly less than the average annual earnings of high school graduates....
• Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.
  Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back....
• Women dream of world peace, a safe environment, and eliminating hunger.
  What do men dream of? Being stuck in an elevator with the Doublemint twins....
• I fish not because I regard fishing as being terribly important, but because I suspect that so many of the other concerns of men are equally unimportant, and not nearly so much fun.