Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!occrsh!uokmax!apple!usc!samsung!uunet!dev!dgis!jkrueger From: jkrueger@dgis.dtic.dla.mil (Jon) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: The invisible hand of Adam Smit Keywords: American education Message-ID: Date: 3 Jun 90 17:49:58 GMT References: <76700221@p.cs.uiuc.edu> <860@fsu.scri.fsu.edu> Followup-To: misc.misc Organization: Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC), Alexandria VA Lines: 20 sandee@fsu.scri.fsu.edu (Daan Sandee) writes: >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. "Freeze! Cultural literacy police, back away from that terminal!! OK, now slowly, put that user's manual back on the desk. Good. Good. Now, buster, who first used the term "social contract", and what has been its effect on timesharing?" Can't dispute your main point, though. Yes, Americans are seldom conversant with ideas or events that haven't appeared on TV within the last two weeks. We now return you to your regularly scheduled newsgroup :-) -- Jon -- Jonathan Krueger jkrueger@dtic.dla.mil uunet!dgis!jkrueger Drop in next time you're in the tri-planet area!