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From: mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: HeathKit Catalogue
Message-ID: <1991Jan17.185232.1097@athena.cs.uga.edu>
Date: 17 Jan 91 18:52:32 GMT
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In article <4911@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> minsky@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky) writes:
>Right on.  The equipment is better, but my impression is that the
>entering engineering students have fewer skills than they used to. 
>
>(On the other side, I read an article by some historian who asserted
>that throughout recorded history, senior professors have always
>complained that their new students are worse than they were in the
>good old days.)

The professors get more knowledgeable as the years go by; by comparison
the students look worse and worse. I've caught this happening to me.