Klarinet Archive - Posting 000123.txt from 2004/08

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Different worlds....
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 15:31:09 -0400

Well, while I don't know the context of the statement, I would
often say to my math students, "Explain ...[this or that]"

When they would say, "I know what it is, but I can't explain it,"
I invariably answered, "If you can't explain it, you don't know
it."

To whatever extent the quotation below is applicable to this
anecdote, I believe it.

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Pay [mailto:tony_pay@-----.uk]
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 12:02 PM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] Different worlds....

--- Ormondtoby Montoya <ormondtoby@-----.net> wrote:

> "If you can't quantify what you're doing, you can't do it
well."
>
> The statement above was made in a newspaper article that had
nothing to
> do with music. It illustrates the danger of generalizing too
far.

I'd go further.

It's complete crap, written by an idiot who should be shot. Many
of the
present ills of the world can be traced to this sort of idea.

Tony

http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

-----------------------------------------------------------------
----
Klarinet is a service of Woodwind.Org, Inc.
http://www.woodwind.org

---------------------------------------------------------------------
Klarinet is a service of Woodwind.Org, Inc. http://www.woodwind.org