On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:11:01 +0100, johannes
wrote and included this (or some of
this):

When I went to school a lot of many years ago, there were no concern
about learning to cope with conditions that I would meet as adult;
that kind of knowledge was considered 'trivial', something you could
always pick up as and when necessary.

You were taught the 'basics', the 'grounding' of education.

Thank you. My point. PC didn't come into it.

Nevertheless. The younger people in their 20's that I work with have no shortage
of mathematical skills. Explain that one Mike... It's horses for courses.

They eat horses, don't they?

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