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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: The invisible hand of Adam Smit
Keywords: American education
Message-ID: <2288@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 1 Jun 90 21:10:58 GMT
References: <76700221@p.cs.uiuc.edu> <860@fsu.scri.fsu.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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In article <860@fsu.scri.fsu.edu> sandee@fsu.scri.fsu.edu.UUCP (Daan Sandee) writes:

| This query proves to this European once more the quality of American
| education. In Europe, people who don't know who Adam Smith was (not is),
| wouldn't be allowed near a computer, let alone be employed at a University.

  Obviously if one person managed to get a job in a university without
taking material taught in high school (age 15, usually), this proves the
US education system is faulty.

  Now I know a European who never learned about "hasty generalization,"
a topic also often taught at age 15. I guess if I hadn't had that
training I would conclude that the European schools are faulty, and that
Europeans have a false superiority complex.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
            "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me