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I have been following the thread of "theory vs practice".
Being a high school math teacher I can say there is a lot to
be said for practice. You don't know how many inservices I have
been to and new teaching methods that I have had to endure
that look good on paper and don't work in real life. ( If you
can call the classroom real life ). All thought up by some
college education professors that have never had to actually
handle a group of unruly 17 and 18 year old Juniors and Seniors that
don't know 8th grade math.
To quote John Wayne in "Operation Pacific", "I'm no theory man,
I'm a line officer".
There is also a quote from the famous computer scientist,
"Donald Knuth". I forget the exact line, I'd have to look it
up, but it goes something like, "I've just proved it correct,
I didn't say it would work".
-- Gordon
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