“After having used an iPad shortly since its release I can safely say that the device — or another one like it — deserves to become an important part of the academic’s arsenal of gadgets. Choosing to plop down the money for an iPad is like Ingrid Bergman’s regret over leaving Casablanca with Humphrey Bogart. You will do it: not today, not tomorrow, but soon — and for the rest of your life.”
“If we wanted to use something with a smooth learning curve, we would use Statistica or JMP. That would allow the students to go into a button-clicking frenzy, they would get test statistics and p-values by the dozen, and… well, they will likely do the same thing that I did when I was a student using Statistica and JMP : perform a bunch of tests that are not necessarily valid given their data, have no global understanding of how things work, and learn roughly no statistics at all”
“Raise your hand if you actually think that modern students of Socrates could learn just as much on the internet as they could by engaging in dialogue? ”