Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!usc!apple!bionet!ames!uhccux!waikato!comp.vuw.ac.nz!cc-server4.massey.ac.nz!A.S.Chamove From: A.S.Chamove@massey.ac.nz (A.S. Chamove) Newsgroups: comp.edu Subject: Re: Against educational fads Summary: Some things are more important than others. Message-ID: <1990Dec6.015515.9079@massey.ac.nz> Date: 6 Dec 90 01:55:15 GMT References: <15404@cs.utexas.edu> <15425@cs.utexas.edu> <1990Dec5.005509.11049@massey.ac.nz> <15447@cs.utexas.edu> <39897@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <15459@cs.utexas.edu> Organization: Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand Lines: 28 X-Reader: NETNEWS/PC Version 2.2 Russell I am sorry if what I said appeared to be critical of your contribution. I make it a rule NEVER to criticize what others say using E-mail, as (in my observation and experience) it leads to unproductive interchange. I found your contribution thought-provoking (which is why I responded), and insightful. I was only agreeing that word-processing and writing skills are different; that I found both of value; and thought both should be taught. I never meant to suggest that either should be dropped, especially writing. My contribution was wondering why it appears that so few people know how to write. I dont remember ever being taught (which may be memory loss on my part). And following on from your response, I dont remember ever being taught History "properly" either. My instruction was all Names and Dates and 'Causes'. It is only much later that I realized that there were lessions of life embedded in all of that. Judging from TV, there is very little real History taught to TV journalists. Comments on Iraq are all Hitler references, and very little else. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Arnold Chamove Massey University Psychology Palmerston North, New Zealand Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com