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Re:I gave my students iPads – then wished I could take them ... by kps on Monday December 07, 2015 @11:00AM (#10690188) 

  > When calculators were brought in instead of the slide rule
  > we heard it would be the end of actually "knowing" math.
Plato argued in Phaedrus that literacy would be the end of anyone actually "knowing" anything. Why learn if you can just google^H^H^H^H^H^H read it? Same shit, different millennium.
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