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From: tsouth@pro-pac.cts.COM (Todd South)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: school (or why do we have electives)
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Date: 9 Apr 88 01:07:18 GMT
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On the subject of having others required to take some programming
in schools, this could also be associated with some schools
requirements that students take at least on language class, or
having students take certain humanities, even though they will
never have practical applications for that person.

If a person has some basic knowledge on a subject then they will
not be abrasive when working or conversing in the subject at a later
point in life.  Apples in the lower grades really help on this
point.  I know a number of managers that cring at the thought
of preparing large point papers that require something more
complicated than Wordstar or Peachtext.  Let's hope that starting
young with today's generation will help tomorrow's be more at home
with a larger scope of communication tools.

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