Our fine educational system (was: Login on VMS)

From: Tim Harrison <harrison_at_timharrison.com>
Date: Sun Sep 24 15:39:01 2000

ajp166 wrote:

> Your kidding... boy he has no knowledge of the space program
> (core rom ropes!). And has never seens a Epson PX-8 (cpm in rom!).
> Feh!

Exactly. The students he's teaching are coming out into the world with
less than complete knowledge, and it's people like us (the unschooled,
but experienced type) that are kicking their butts all over the
workplace.

I suppose some can't be faulted. They're stuck in an educational system
that's being decimated (well, at least in Ontario) by politicians. The
teachers/instructors/professors are working from a curriculum that's at
least two years behind where we are now, and they don't have the
necessary funding to upgrade, or take new courses to learn new things.

My father is a teacher, and I see how frustrated he is with how the
education system is falling apart. And, now, in this "high tech"
society, we're unleashing people who know how to type "win" at the DOS
prompt into our technology sector.

Sorry, guess I'm just frustrated. Apologies for the rant.

-- 
Tim Harrison
Network Engineer
harrison_at_timharrison.com
http://www.networklevel.com/
Received on Sun Sep 24 2000 - 15:39:01 BST

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