From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jul 5 08:08:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA14452 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 08:08:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cygnus.rush.net (root@cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA14447 for ; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 08:08:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lynch@rush.net) Received: from localhost (lynch@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA14153; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 11:44:47 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 5 Jul 1998 11:44:45 -0500 (EST) From: P Lynch To: Tim Vanderhoek cc: Greg Lehey , David Caldwell , FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Beginning user's OS (was: Here is a really odd question!!!) In-Reply-To: <19980703022310.B4457@zappo> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I totally agree about the "why" thinkgs work the way they do, also, if you introduce something tangible to them, sometimes kids grasp concepts better (an example, although it seems to be later on in my life than 9 years old:) When I was in High School, I did well in geometry and trig, but sucked in Algebra and Calc, but I excelled in Chemistry and Physics, I realized later that the sciences were just tangible Algebra and Calculus *shrug* (at least in a very simplified sense). It was the fact these things were conceptualized for me that I got it. Now the concepts of algebra and calculus are firmly imbedded in my mind =) -Pat ___________________________________________________________________________ Pat Lynch lynch@rush.net Systems Administrator Rush Networking ___________________________________________________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message