Our fine educational system (was: Login on VMS)

From: Tim Harrison <harrison_at_timharrison.com>
Date: Sun Sep 24 22:00:45 2000

ajp166 wrote:

> True, Palm was a weak choice but there are plenty of OSs that are
> romable.

I have to admit, it was not exactly accurate. :) At the time, I thought
it was. However, I had successfully made my point.

As for methods of learning, I don't think telling them that all cars
don't fly, when there are some that do is proper. Telling them that
cars, in common practice, do not fly, yet there are some that do, is
more effective. That might challenge the student (the one who is
actually interested) to find out for themselves which cars do actually
fly, and why.

> I may be the oddball, I didn't go back as my career was moving
> forward dispite that and I had no qualms of going back for non
> grad (and non credit) courses.

I left high school because of my home status (I didn't have one), and
found computers to be an excellent way to change that. When I tried
college, I found that I was learning more through messing around by
myself. I learned through my own tinkering at my own speed (quicker
than the classes). Seems to have worked so far (except for my Palm
incident a year ago ;) ).

And my token "old computer" mention for the day is:

While watching the credits for Star Trek: The Motion Picture tonight, I
noticed the the computer displays in Sick Bay were done on DEC
equipment. Mentioned in the credits, along with Apogee Software
(unfortunately, not your good ol' makers of Commander Keen adventures...
:( ).

-- 
Tim Harrison
Network Engineer
harrison_at_timharrison.com
http://www.networklevel.com/
Received on Sun Sep 24 2000 - 22:00:45 BST

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