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Posted By: davidcycleback

From my personal experience, the beauty of an illustrated online presentation (like a website), is that folks you'll never meet from places you will never visit can read and learn and ask questions. The essential problem is that that, especially when involving a microscope or something on that order, I can never look at the same thing they are looking at and can never be really sure what they're really looking at. That person in Chicago is looking through a microscope, while I'm looking at the text of his email. In person together, things would probably be cleared up in like ten minutes as we would be looking at the same thing with the exact same microscope.

I remember in 7th grade science class, the teacher pointed out that I might be able to view the glass slide better if I remeoved the lense cap. I probably would never have received this sage advice if the class was done through the mail.