On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 07:23:51PM +0800, csj wrote: > On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 15:35:54 -0600, > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 15:31, Alfredo Valles wrote: > > > On Friday 14 November 2003 3:48 pm, David Palmer. wrote: > > [snip very good points] > > > > > > > The modern 'educational' process is there to teach people > > > > how to read just well enough so that they no longer need to > > > > think. > > > > > > The modern educational process should teach people not to > > > think what have been thought by others before, but to > > > concentrate on new problems. It's what some call progress. > > > > People still should think about "what have been thought by > > others before", because what has been thought before might be > > wrong. > > Yes. Imagine the consequences of someone figuring out we can > actually accelerate beyond the speed of light.
I do have a feeling that it's not really the absolute barrier we currently think of it as. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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