Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/30

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Lens Designs and history- the other take
From: "Dan Post" <dwpost@email.msn.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 20:47:11 -0400

I reiterate, slink, slink, slink!

Dan
Chastened, but still trying... ( my wife says I am the most trying person
she knows!)
- ----- Original Message -----
From: Dale Reed <dale-reed@worldnet.att.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Friday, July 30, 1999 12:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Lens Designs and history- the other take


> <snip>
> >any advance has been achieved largely because someone begged,
> > borrowed or stole an idea, and eventually it was improved upon.
> <snip>
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> Negatory Dan Post.
>
> People do have new ideas.  All of us think brand new thoughts so we
> should carry around a pen and 3x5 card and possibly our M6s to record
> these too-rare events.
>
> I am into homeschooling/unschooling and other self-directed learning
> environments in an effort to maximize the number of brand new ideas that
> future earthling will have.  The present olds fashioned factory model
> schools obviously will not work in the information age.
>
> T.S. Eliot said:  "Where is the wisdom that we have lost in knowledge?
> Where is the knowledge we have list in information?"
>
> And I add:  Do something that a robot cannot do.    Dale
> ---
> $ dale-reed@worldnet.att.net  Seattle, Washington U.S.A. $
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