From: utzoo!decvax!cwruecmp!honton
Newsgroups: net.followup
Title: RE:EDUCATION AS A RIGHT
Article-I.D.: cwruecmp.208
Posted: Tue Oct 26 16:36:33 1982
Received: Wed Oct 27 08:19:00 1982

  If education is not a "right" then perhaps this is what is wrong with
our society.  The only way cultural repressed and depressed people can
become part of the power structure and enjoy many of their basic rights
is by education.

  I'm not arguing that we can teach algebra to a horse, but that we have
an obligation to educate as far as possible anyone who wants to know
more.  Students should not supported in an extravagent life style but
they should still be given the economic chance to attend the school of
their choice.

   My own experience as an undergraduate is not cushy.  I pay one third
of my tuition, one/third is loans, and one/third is grants.  But I also
have to have food, shelter, and clothing.  I am an independent student
and my parents aren't receiving phone calls for money every week.

  I've scraped by without new clothes in three years, I've never owned
a calculator, I sell what few textbooks I buy.  I would never be able to
afford a personal computer, nor would I want to be forced to own one.

  Personal computers have little value outside of being video games.  They
do not teach programming, they do not teach hardware, nor are they
presently usefull as network stations.  I wonder why CMU is so hot on them.

					chas  (..decvax!cwruecmp!honton)

ps. For what is a history major going to use a pc?