That abacus, I left aside, looks at me sneering a bit:
"I was, as you said starting your excursion, merely an aid for the memory, like paper and pencil.
Do you agree now that a computer is not breathtaking better? You have to think by yourself anyway!"

Is'nt he right, this Far Eastern sage...


Now we stand by this roaring data highway, get our computer and start. A bit thoughtful?

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The text is based mainly on a lecture held at Hildesheim University Nov. 6, 1996, by the occasion of Wagenschein's 100^th birthday. - Published in "Der Vorrang des Verstehens - Beiträge zur Pädagogik Martin Wagenscheins" (Klinkhardt)


That was all?