<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">So, mandatory sex education should result in ... um, a lower birth rate?<br><br>Michael<br><br>--- On <b>Thu, 11/19/09, Jon Rafkind <i><rafkind@cs.utah.edu></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Jon Rafkind <rafkind@cs.utah.edu><br>Subject: [plt-scheme] mathematicians lament<br>To: "PLT-Scheme Mailing List" <plt-scheme@list.cs.brown.edu><br>Date: Thursday, November 19, 2009, 10:28 AM<br><br><div class="plainMail"><a href="http://www.maa.org/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.maa.org/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf</a><br><br>This is a comment on the state of teaching mathematics. I'm not sure how old it is but a few parallels can probably be drawn to computer science (or maybe will be drawn in a few years). The first 3 pages are pretty
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