Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 11:51:32 07/23/00
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On July 22, 2000 at 15:38:46, Ratko V Tomic wrote: >More worrisome (for the future of the CCC) than the sharp >exchange is the censorious hypersensitivity some folks >have exhibited right afterwards. It mirrors the pathological >obsession with the self-esteem being promoted in "modern" >education. Here in the Peoples Republic of Massachusetts the >sensitive do-gooders have convinced some school soccer >legaues to abandon scoring the games (goal counting), to >avoid psychological injury to the child's self-esteem. Now >everybody wins. Allegedly. I suppose, the next step from >the hypersensitive self-esteem protectors here will be to >demand abandoning tournament score keeping for amateur >programs to protect the self-esteem of the programmers. Then >the love, harmony and happiness will reign on the CCC. I haven't seen any application of this. bruce
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