Calculus in One Variable (Chinese) 1.0.0

	COMPUTERS ARE ICUMEN IN

		Ralph P. Boas
		Department of Mathematics
		Northwestern University
		Evanston, IL 60201

	There was a time when teachers
	    Could just get up and talk.

	Slateboards were invented;
	    You wrote on them with chalk.

	At least this slowed the lecture
	    So the audience could try

	To take some notes on everything
	    Before it passed them by.

	But slate was too expensive,
	    So substitutes arose

	That scattered dust on everything
	    But mostly on our clothes.

	(A kind that's best forgotten---
	    It died while it was new---

	The yellow board with purple chalk
	    That turned your fingers blue.)

	The overhead projector
	    Seems to help, as well it may,

	As long as you can make enough
	    Transparencies each day.

	But I have seen the future,
	    And I don't like what I see:

	Computers in the classroom,
	    They come too fast for me.

	There's lots and lots of labor,
	    As far as I can hear,

	Creating complex programs
	    To make simple topics clear.

	There might be an alternative
	    We shouldn't overlook:

	What's wrong with telling students
	    That they have to read the book?