Re: App to help with Deliberate Practice / Mavis Beacon Teaches Vim?

On Fri 09 Apr 2010 at 16:12:10 PDT John Little wrote:
>
>> On Thu 08 Apr 2010 at 07:28:22 PDT Tony Mechelynck wrote:
>>
>> >Yeah, thinking about it, it looks like we're once more against the
>> >conservative <=> progressive theories of learning (Reminds me of a
>> >recent comment I gave on one of Paul Krugman's NYT blog articles).
>
>and Charlie Kester replied:
>
>> Tony, I found your pejorative use of word "conservative" quite
>> offensive.
>...
>> Maybe we should leave politics out of this mailinglist, eh?
>
>"conservative learning theory" does not have much to do with
>"conservative politics". Just because a plain English word is used in
>a political context should not forbid us from using in other contexts,
>IMO.

Tony's mail definitely introduced some political overtones, imo.

But my reply was somewhat tongue-in-cheek. Sorry I didn't make that
clearer. ;-)

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