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From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: The invisible hand of Adam Smit
Keywords: American education
Message-ID: <1594@charon.cwi.nl>
Date: 1 Jun 90 23:52:06 GMT
References: <76700221@p.cs.uiuc.edu> <860@fsu.scri.fsu.edu> <2288@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
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In article <2288@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
 > 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.

Obviously we have a false superiority complex.  I did not know who Adam Smith
was, and I am near a computer for over 20 years now (although this is not a
University).
--
dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland
dik@cwi.nl