-----Original Message----- From: kirby urner [mailto:kirby.urner@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 9:36 AM To: Art; edu-sig@python.org Subject: Re: [Edu-sig] Rapunsel, Rapunsel
Sorry that more Python folks don't seem to get what I am trying to do and find some way to get behind it.
Art
I understand your commitment to keeping it potentially playful is high, and that's a big positive.
Having two cars approach a third in opposing lanes on the freeway, and seeing how that defines a triangle of changing shape, or doing the same with four airplanes to see a tetrahedron: that's all worthwhile animation.
The problem between you and I, I think, - and this has been true for 5 years and everyone has a perfect right to be bored with it - is semantic, most fundamentally because when you say geometry and I say geometry I think we are talking about largely different things. Fuller has not influenced me, and Klein has not influenced you. With the further difference that I happen to think there is a right and wrong answer to the question of whose influence we should be following most closely in an acceptable pedagogical approach to the subject matter. And perhaps the other difference is the fact that I tend to recognized more than you, that there is such a thing as right and wrong answers. Art
Kirby