[Edu-sig] Low Enrollments - programming as anit-intellectualism.

[Chuck Allison]

Hello Arthur,

Wednesday, November 2, 2005, 12:29:41 PM, you wrote:
>> I'm a big bookstore fan too. It's the best place to go when you want to
>> learn about some hot new technology ;-). It's not necesarily the place I
>> go for a liberal education.

A> Except that this one was clearly geared toward the Yale academic community -
A> and exactly where one might go to pursue a liberal education.  What I ended
A> up with was a book from the math section on Hyerbolic Geometry, of just the
A> kind that is useful for self-study (the answers to the exercises in the back
A> ;)).  Certainly *not* something I would see in a NYC Barnes and Noble. How
A> many copies of that can be flying off the shelves?

I believe I've been to that bookstore. It's practically across the
street from Yale, right? I was there in 1998. I remember browsing for
a long time in Liberal Arts areas (mostly literature). The owner
obviously didn't cater to CS subjects very well - there was nothing to
look at of worth. Has no correlation to CS departments whatsoever.


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Best regards,
 Chuck