Re: Target browsers for web development

American Heritage:
1. The act or process of educating or being educated.
2. The knowledge or skill obtained or developed by a learning process.
3. A program of instruction of a specified kind or level: driver
education; a college education.
4. The field of study that is concerned with the pedagogy of teaching
and learning.
5. An instructive or enlightening experience: Her work in the inner
city was a real education.

Sounds as if you've had some bad personal experiences with "education"
or the term education. Education by definition does not mean taking the
user out of the control position. In fact, it's quite the opposite. It
doesn't imply that the user doesn't know what they're doing, but rather
assumes that the user might want/need some assistance.

On Tuesday, April 8, 2003, at 05:34  PM, David Heller wrote:

> Actually, I'm not joking.
> The word educating is what I am questioning and maybe I have my own bad
> experiences w/ that word, but I would say that educating or "teaching"
> is
> VERY different from hand-holding, guiding, comforting, and assisting.
>
> Education means taking the user out of the control position.
> It implies that the user doesn't know what they are doing.
>
> If your system is based on their environmental and contextual needs
> then you
> shouldn't ever have to force them to relinquish that type of control.

Cheers!

Todd R. Warfel

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