> On Thursday 22 November 2007 11:26 pm, Alan Kay wrote:
>  
>> Hi Folks --
>>
>> .... Yet, in
>> the US where classrooms do have books, and there
>> are free public libraries in most towns,
>> education is failing. Should we blame the book or
>> should we blame the classrooms and what's behind them?
>>    
> It is a quantity vs. quality issue. Books are indeed numerous and available,
> but well-written books are hard to find. I recollect my frustration
> in "understanding" electromagnetism during my school days till I stumbled on
> Maxwell's original article in a edited collection stashed in a dusty corner
> of a library. Here, at last, was a spirited presentation written without
> recourse to circumlocutions, jargons or acronyms.
>
> Technology can help in keeping such "books" in active circulation and make the
> term "out of print" obsolete.