One Laptop Per Child pledge

[Richard A Sharpe]

I must say I agree with Ben, I did the same search through text books,
manuals when I was bored, just to see what was there, I think that is
missing in computer searches.

Rich

Richard A Sharpe
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Merrimack, NH 03054
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-----Original Message-----
From: gnhlug-discuss-admin at mail.gnhlug.org
[mailto:gnhlug-discuss-admin at mail.gnhlug.org] On Behalf Of Ben Scott
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 3:33 PM
To: gnhlug-discuss at mail.gnhlug.org
Subject: Re: One Laptop Per Child pledge

On 6/1/06, Jonathan Linowes <jonathan at linowes.com> wrote:
> a key skill pretty unique to "computers" is learning through
> searching and discovery vs memorizing

  I disagree.  Before computerized dictionaries came along, whenever I
went to search through a dictionary to look up a word, I almost always
discovered a few new interesting words while I was at it.  I also
recall flipping idly through my textbooks at school during boring
lectures, and reading stuff that looked interesting.

-- Ben
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