[CW] Dumb down not justified

[W2AGN]

On 7 Jul 2003 at 8:41, Louise Eberhart wrote:

> BTW, not everyone CAN do Counted Cross Stitch...they just can't 
> see" the picture on a blank piece of canvas.   THEY use STAMPED fabric with
> the X's already on it. (Perhaps, a fabric Code Quick of sorts?????)
> I AM learning a language "based on sounds visually".  (Code Quick)

There are some things that not everypone can do. I used to be a radar 
controller, and taught that skill in the USAF. Not everyone could 
visualize a 3 dimensional environment (the sky) on a 2 dimensional radar 
scope. 


> I suspect JOHN that you are pretty young since you have obviously not had
> many life experiences.

Ah yes, there goes that "obviously" again.  I believe, according to your 
words a little further down, I have at least 4 years on you...


> I can read an instruction book over a hundred times but when I sit down to
> do what I have read...ZILCH...NOTHING...NADA.
> NOW, let me SEE it and then do it and VOILA...success!

Some people have to do that. There is no shame in being challenged.


> The CW says _.. and I see D, not as _.. as you may do but as DOG did it. 
> Who cares HOW it works as long as it works.
> At 55, I know that I can do most anything I attempt if not hindered by
> strength or mental aptitude (math...YUCK) but some of these things may
> require more effort or a different method to ACHEIVE  a measure of success.

--
John L. Sielke W2AGN
http://www.w2agn.net

"Anybody who is spoken about at all is sure to be spoken against by 
somebody; and any action, however innocent in itself, is liable, and not 
at all unlikely, to be blamed by somebody. If you limit your actions in 
life to things that no one can possibly find fault with, you will not do 
much."
                       -Dr Charles L. Dodgson (aka "Lewis Carroll")