Tough. Being unable to learn from a book is like being unable to write on paper with a pen. It's a basic and required literacy skill and if you don't have it, you need to get it.
Actually, not tough. There are in fact schools, so people who don't learn well from reading books on their own aren't out of luck. Luckily not everyone is as narrow-minded as the above viewpoint.
Yes, learning is something the student has to be motivated to do, whether it is through hands-on experience, books, teachers, or (hopefully) a solid combination of all three.
Don't tell me someone who learns how a computer works by taking it apart and putting it back together and hacking the hell out of it is somehow learning less than Johnny Bookworm who buys "An Introduction to UNIX" and "Digital Systems" books. Maybe if you go to an awful school you don't get to program and mess with hardware... but at any decent school you do, and you have a professor guiding you and giving you feedback along the way.
I don't think your gas pedal analogy really makes a whole lot of sense in this situation. We're talking about learning styles, from which there are many to choose. As far as I know, there are no cars available without gas pedals, which is why you have to be able to use it. What if you move the analogy to manual vs. automatic (which is still too constrained because there are only two black-and-white choices)?
Why should there be one "right" solution to learning? That sounds absurd.
You can't split up "where" and "fore" like that for the etymology. I mean, you can for fun if you want, but it isn't accurate.
"Where" in this case is being used like "whereby" or "whereas", and the "where" isn't necessarily referring to a location.
And the "fore" probably was really "for" in usage. There is the alternative spelling of "wherefor".
Modern German still constructs many compounds with "where" + preposition. They have a word for wherefore, and it is "wofür", with "wo" meaning "where" and "für" meaning "for".
In this situation it makes more sense to think of "wherefore" as the questioning counterpart to "therefore". The word "therefore" is used to mean "for this reason or purpose" or "that is why".
As far as I can tell, the.Mac name has the "@mac.com" as part of it, so they are recognized as two distinct things. You can use either of them you want.
It isn't a matter of using iChat or not, it has to do with the.Mac address. You can use your AIM screen name in iChat and then there would be no problem.
And yes, I am certain iChat allows you to use your AIM screen name.
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Actually, not tough. There are in fact schools, so people who don't learn well from reading books on their own aren't out of luck. Luckily not everyone is as narrow-minded as the above viewpoint.
Yes, learning is something the student has to be motivated to do, whether it is through hands-on experience, books, teachers, or (hopefully) a solid combination of all three.
Don't tell me someone who learns how a computer works by taking it apart and putting it back together and hacking the hell out of it is somehow learning less than Johnny Bookworm who buys "An Introduction to UNIX" and "Digital Systems" books. Maybe if you go to an awful school you don't get to program and mess with hardware... but at any decent school you do, and you have a professor guiding you and giving you feedback along the way.
I don't think your gas pedal analogy really makes a whole lot of sense in this situation. We're talking about learning styles, from which there are many to choose. As far as I know, there are no cars available without gas pedals, which is why you have to be able to use it. What if you move the analogy to manual vs. automatic (which is still too constrained because there are only two black-and-white choices)?
Why should there be one "right" solution to learning? That sounds absurd.
You can't split up "where" and "fore" like that for the etymology. I mean, you can for fun if you want, but it isn't accurate.
"Where" in this case is being used like "whereby" or "whereas", and the "where" isn't necessarily referring to a location.
And the "fore" probably was really "for" in usage. There is the alternative spelling of "wherefor".
Modern German still constructs many compounds with "where" + preposition. They have a word for wherefore, and it is "wofür", with "wo" meaning "where" and "für" meaning "for".
In this situation it makes more sense to think of "wherefore" as the questioning counterpart to "therefore". The word "therefore" is used to mean "for this reason or purpose" or "that is why".
As far as I can tell, the .Mac name has the "@mac.com" as part of it, so they are recognized as two distinct things. You can use either of them you want.
It isn't a matter of using iChat or not, it has to do with the .Mac address. You can use your AIM screen name in iChat and then there would be no problem.
And yes, I am certain iChat allows you to use your AIM screen name.