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Subject: Re: James Burke (what a real blacko
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Date: Thu, 19-Feb-87 22:56:00 EST
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[begin: spouting off:

I think the kind of power engineering methods needed to run factories are
now "technology" and probably should be taught in tech schools.  (That
doesn't mean they shouldn't be taught).

We don't need a bigger university system.  What we need is a dichotomy
between universities (which are places for learning, thinking, and growing)
and technical/trade schools (for skills, business techniques,
how to make big bucks fast, etc.).  The biggest problem with the US college
system is that the students aren't there to learn a damn thing, they're
mostly there to be force-fed a career.  If you ask me, the American
university system is a mass-production mess. 

end: spouting off]

Ben Leimkuhler
(leimkuhl@p.cs.uiuc.edu)