Re: spring break(s)

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (Robert)]

 > From: Brian
 > Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:09:55 -0700
 >
 > I'm way behind again.

Me, too.

 > So I'm hoping
 > that won't be necessary, but even the worst case is better than a new hip.

My dad got a new hip.  It was a success at the time, but I guess even
replacements wear out.

 > Yesterday I had an out-of-the-blue
 > visit from a 26-year-old Brazilian computer programmer interested in
 > constructivist education who says his heroes are Papert and me!  (Yeah,
 > "and I," but it sounds wrong.)

What is constructivist education?

I was reading a book review the other day and it referred to
constructivist-intuitive mathematics and I remembered that, when I was at
Evergreen, when learning about the philosophies of mathematics, I decided
at the time that I was a constructivist.