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Latham Turner's avatar

I remember learning MCMAP at the Naval Academy. It's funny how those moments still pop up when I training Jiu-Jitsu. When I first started, I kept thinking about how it would change if we had knives or other weapons.

"It asserts that there is a part of every human which is free from the constraints of the particular tools by which he makes his living. That part is rational, free, and eternal and might decide to use any number of tools in its course of existence." This is spot on. I've been trying to articulate the same point, but much less eloquently than you did. Thank you for the analogy here.

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Patrick B. Whalen's avatar

Thanks so much Latham. There's a cool book by a guy named Etienne Gilson called The Arts of the Beautiful...the school you're working on seems to me one that strives to cultivate the arts of the free...

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Latham Turner's avatar

I can’t wait to read it. Thank you Patrick

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Carefulrogue's avatar

>It is common today to hear folks call for schools to teach “computer literacy” as if it were an educational fundamental.

My two cents:

Most of the folks who really got into computers, or video games, or any of the related technologies ended up doing so from their own initiative and cultivated intuition. The only fundamental that really needs working on is typing, because if you are a slow typer, your opportunities are limited. And fixing that is as easy as being sat down and told to write something on a machine (an essay, a story, an opinion, etc.) People adapt to the interfaces they are given.

Anything beyond that requires a bit of instruction, and that's OK. The softwares we're given are getting complicated. So long as you're canny enough to spot a scam, you're better than most novice computer users out there.

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