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			<outline created="Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:27:29 GMT" pgfnum="13732" text="When I was a kid going to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jhs185.org/&quot;&gt;Edward Bleeker Junior High&lt;/a&gt; in Queens I had a math teacher, Mr. Brickman, who said there were only two subjects worth studying, math and grammar. And he wasn't so sure about grammar. :-)"></outline>
			<outline created="Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:28:23 GMT" pgfnum="13733" text="He was wrong, and I knew it. Because I didn't love math class. I did however love English. "></outline>
			<outline created="Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:28:47 GMT" pgfnum="13734" text="I remember sitting down for the first day of high school English and thinking &quot;I bet we're going to have some great discussions here!&quot; I was a kid. Kids get enthusiastic about things they like. I liked English. I didn't feel that way about math. BTW, my English teacher was named Miss Dragnet. In my mind she's a lot like Sarah Palin. She &lt;i&gt;didn't&lt;/i&gt; lead really good discussions, unfortunately. But my History teacher, Mr. Goldman, did. "></outline>
			<outline created="Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:37:03 GMT" pgfnum="13738" text="My freshman college English teacher taught me that in writing it's better to remove words if you can. I don't remember her name, but I remember arguing with her. I thought flowery English was good. Now I know she was right. And guess what, the same principle applies to programming. How about that. "></outline>
			<outline created="Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:31:37 GMT" pgfnum="13736" text="My belief is that you'd be crazy to study one or the other given the world we live in today. It's not enough to understand how computers work, because you have to understand people too. And you'll be taken advantage of if you don't understand how computers work, by people who do. "></outline>
			<outline created="Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:32:24 GMT" pgfnum="13737" text="To get a good education you should study both."></outline>
			<outline created="Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:30:00 GMT" pgfnum="13735" text="PS: Check out this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-22/software-engineers-will-work-one-day-for-english-majors.html&quot;&gt;piece&lt;/a&gt; that says if you study computer science you'll end up working for an English major. Perhaps another good reason to study English. "></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:35:15 GMT" pgfnum="13739" text="PPS: Miss Dragnet was mentioned in a Village Voice &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=tudLAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=L4wDAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=6161%2C5333384&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; by Nat Hentoff about a famous event that happened at Bronx Science when I was a student there. Now I remember why she makes me think of Sarah Palin! :-)"></outline>
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