eTextBooks (for kids)

[Ely Levy]

I think it was like that also in the pre 67 Israel.

Ely

2009/9/8 Jonathan Ben Avraham <yba at tkos.co.il>

> Hi Arieh,
> I have edited your post below slightly to exactly match the Seattle public
> school system in the 60's of last century. Except for the text in brackets
> ([]) the rest is identical.
>
>  - yba
>
>
> On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, Arie Skliarouk wrote:
>
>  Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 13:58:14 +0300
>> From: Arie Skliarouk <skliarie at gmail.com>
>> To: ILUG <linux-il at cs.huji.ac.il>
>> Subject: Re: eTextBooks (for kids)
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> In [socialistic USSR] capitalist Seattle public school system 1961, school
>> books were not bought each year. Instead pupils
>> had to take them from their's school library for the coming year and
>> return
>> them at end of the year. Each book had "worn out" level marked on cover of
>> the book and one had to be careful not to wore out the book too much
>> during
>> the year. As a penalty for lost or unusable book, the student had to buy a
>> new book for the library. To draw or mark text in the book was a big
>> no-no.
>> All books had hard-cover and had strong binding for durability. Every
>> student was required to put the book he got into special plastic boundary.
>> If a course required pupils to draw on printed material (like letters in
>> the
>> first form), the pupil had to buy addendum personal notebook he had to
>> draw
>> in. I remember I used books with 15-20 name-year pairs in it.
>>
>> Needless to say, all books were [written] approved by a department in the
>> Ministry of Education, and [not] private author benefited from the
>> authorship.
>>
>> After all there were some good economy tactics in the [socialism]
>> capitalism that IMHO should be applied to capitalism [Israeli socialism]
>> (albeit forcefully)...
>>
>> --
>> [Arie] yba
>>
>>
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