At 12:16 AM 11/3/99 -0500
>    A LONG time ago (in a town far away) the local high school metal shop
>class would sometimes take orders for things that they could use as a lesson
>plan for the shop students. The educational theory here being that it would
>show the students that they really were learning something marketable in the
>"real world". Dont know if the schools around you do it  but it may be worth
>a couple of phone calls.

Neither should trig be presented as chicken scatch on the blackboard.
Without a thought to real world application, people like me and many others
will fall asleep.

You end up with a few theorists that can make chicken scratch all day long
and not actually solve a real world problem and a few others that take all
the chicken scratch time and solve the problem via trial and error at the
behest of the Mother Of Invention and the majority who ain't got a clue. No
one is  well served by the a bland education process, and least of all the
society that allows such a low value process.

Regards,

Doktor Tim
Maintenance Repair and Restoration of European Vehicles
San Juan Island, WA