1. knowledge, was Re: Off topic? rational and irrational
On 26 Feb 2001, at 1:25, rolf.schroeder at DESY.DE wrote:
> MichaelANelson at WORLDNET.ATT.NET wrote:
> >
> > Unfortunately, I seriously doubt that US schools teach math well enough for
> > students to know the difference between rational and irrational numbers.
> > They did in my day (barely), but I'm 44 years old!
> >
> Hi Mike,
> you are still too jung to play with your age! I will become 60 soon and
> I'm unable to realize it. But concerning the situation of US school
> education: also in Germany the situation had become worse. But, today
> pupils are more 'equal' on a common lower level of knowledge.
Yesterday i recorded a Public Broadcasting System show which was expressly made
for showing to students in high school in Alabama, with the sentence fragment
(paraphrased) "if your at school" in it. Having Tiggr deal with errors from
humans isn't a
minor problem anymore.
>I thought
> in US the 'sputnik shock' should have changed something.
LOL !! That presumes they knew "better" existed!
> Anyway, I hope at least, nobody feels suppressed asking questions here
> due to my remark concerning knowledge!
I won't, if i couldn't learn, i wouldn't be here, thanks, Rolf. 
Kat
