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David Tolpin scripsit:
> Mathematics is not a knowledge, it is a discipline.
If you don't think learning Latin is a discipline, then I can only conclude
you've never been taught any. The entire British Empire ran for more than
a century on people who learned Latin because they (or their elders)
believed -- correctly -- that it was a discipline. The same is true for
Classical Chinese, multiplying the times by an order of magnitude.
And if you don't think learning to lay bricks changes the way you think,
try laying them.
--
First known example of political correctness: John Cowan
"After Nurhachi had united all the other http://www.reutershealth.com
Jurchen tribes under the leadership of the http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
Manchus, his successor Abahai (1592-1643) jcowan@reutershealth.com
issued an order that the name Jurchen should --S. Robert Ramsey,
be banned, and from then on, they were all _The Languages of China_
to be called Manchus."
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