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From: rsc@altair.uucp (Steve Cunningham)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: CS education
Message-ID: <1989Dec18.091519.2144@csustan.CSUStan.Edu>
Date: 18 Dec 89 09:15:19 GMT
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billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu (William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 )
writes (16 Dec 89 18:32:41 GMT)

   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

I've been reading Mr. Wolfe's requests for BA's from trade schools for some
time, and this time pushes me over the limit.  *flame on* Let's just all add
him to our kill files and end this; there are some real questions in CS
education that deserve our attention instead.  *flame off*