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From: Chris.Gehlker@p12.f56.n114.z1.fidonet.org (Chris Gehlker)
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Subject: Re: Low cost Mac's ?
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Date: 3 Sep 90 10:31:51 GMT
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In a message to All dated 08/30/90 at 17:21:42, Brandon Lovested
writes:
 
BL> As the so-and-so who started this surprisingly dynamic thread, I
BL> agree that in 1990, the average person does not "need" a computer.
BL> In 1910, the average person did not "need" a car, either. Our homes
BL> grow with our tools.

There's a big difference, though.  Several homes hdust in the closet.  Lots of people bought these things with no clear idea of
what they were going to use them for (can't seem to avoid dangling 
prepositions
today).

BL> However, the push is for intruction in general, and education
BL> specifically. Education is under-funded, and thus little money for
BL> computers. If there's little money in a market, there will be few
BL> of the best and brightest in it, relative to business applications,
BL> for example.

*FLAME ON*
Educators and the elementary school educational establishment are, by and 
large,
inept around computers.  (No doubt there are a few outstanding exceptions.)
 It was the educational establishment, after all, that decided that there was
such a thing as "computer literacy."  There are even educators that claim to
be able to teach the subject.  When I've asked a few why they want to waste
resources when we're having a problem with plain old literacy they give me a
bunch of gobeldygook about how young people of the future will be locked out
of the job market if they aren't "computer literate."  So they take kids away
from their real studies and have them bang away for awhile at WordStar and 
Lotus
1-2-3.  They honestly don't seem to know that this stuff is already a 
generation
behind and that it will be in museums by the time these kids are looking for
work.  But that's not my real beef.  What ever happened to the notion that 
schools
were supposed to prpare people to be critical, informed, citizens.  
Presumably,
if these kids could read they could RTFM.
*FLAME OFF*

Gee Brandon, you certainly didn't say anything to precipitaite that tirade.
 I must'a had something on my chest. :-)

 

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