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From: billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu (William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 )
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Subject: Re: CS education
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Date: 16 Dec 89 18:32:41 GMT
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From snidely@nosun.UUCP (David Schneider):
> Most students consider themselves incarcerated, and aren't 
> willing to make it easy for teachers to teach.

   And leading to low efficiency in the educational system; by making 
   education truly free, in the sense that one can pursue education 
   according to one's own interests (limited only by the need to satisfy 
   an absolutely minimal set of prerequisites), we would see a tremendous 
   increase in the efficiency and effectiveness of education.  

   But surely (heavy sarcasm) this could not compare with the thrill
   of force-feeding irrelevant material to a captive audience which
   really doesn't give a damn, right???  After all, what could possibly 
   lead us to believe that students treated this way will conclude that
   education is completely worthless and decide to seek the more obvious
   material benefits of selling crack instead??  How could we reasonably
   believe that by totally disregarding their interests and forcing them
   to study wars of the 17th century, we could be seeing to it that they 
   seek out drugs as an escape mechanism???  No, our educational system 
   is doing a FINE job of producing pregnant teenage dropouts who give 
   birth to heroin-addicted babies -- why should we change a thing???

   
   Bill Wolfe, wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu