[TriLUG] OT: Education

Ed Hill ed at eh3.com
Sun Sep 25 23:24:58 EDT 2005


On Sun, 2005-09-25 at 20:20 -0400, Jon Carnes wrote:
> 
> I once learned an entire semester of Thermodynamics in one long weekend
> spent in the library. Folks can learn rapidly when properly motivated.
> They don't have to cow-tow to the lowest common denominator. When
> something becomes "relevant" to them, they learn it faster and better.

Hell, yes!

And what would your life be like if you had one weekend like that every
month or so?

Ed

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