> I guess that's the difference when you really LEARN something. You > never forget it. > > JF That's why I don't understand the people who don't read the list unless they want a specific answer, and don't seem concerned as to why things work like they do. There has been a bunch of times something I read here saved my butt years after I read it, when I had no earthly use for it at the time. People mostly seem to want isolated lick and stick factoids, specific to the crisis du jour and expiring on application, rather than long term integrated systems of basic principles applicable to almost anything. Handing them a "what" may solve their current problem, but if they care enough to bother to work out the "why", they can avert a thousand future problems and get into trouble at much higher and more interesting levels than before. "What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises" --- G. C. Lichtenberg --- "It is little short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not already completely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry" --- Albert Einstein --- Off to turn over a few rocks, Ron N
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