http://blog.teledyn.com/node/2323 Comments for "An F in Education" en http://blog.teledyn.com/node/2323 <p>The story goes like this: Kids aren't taking gradeschool computer science and fewer are enrolling in the dead-end career path of advanced computer programming, and educators are all in a miffy over it fearing these kids are doomed, I tell ya, doomed. <i>Doom on you, doom on you ...</i></p> <blockquote><p><cite class="blog-source">"Some kids, for whatever reason, are missing the opportunity to at least take a bite out of the class, to see what it's all about ... They would use the skills they learn for the rest of their lives."</cite><br /> <i class="blog-source">[ <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&amp;u=/ap/20050704/ap_on_hi_te/computer_science">More Computer Classes Urged for Kids - Yahoo! News</a> ]</i></p></blockquote> <p>Yeah, right, <em>essential life-long skills</em> like maybe <i>How to Write VBasic Macros in Word</i>? First off, let's remember that Bucky Fuller's gradeschool teachers said he would be ipso-likewise damned for all time if he didn't learn how electric motors worked. Doomed and damned and double jeopardy because, listen man, there are electric motors <em>everywhere</em> and the future belongs to those who can fix them.</p> <ul> <li> <p><i>Exhibit A</i>: Your refridgerator. Did you even know there was an electric motor in there?</p> </li> <li> <p><i>Exhibit B</i>: Your local Maytag Repair person. Are they the one driving the Lexis?</p> </li> </ul> <p>This is the real crisis in Education: Educators have flunked out, packed it in, and hide from the future, and I have proof, proof in the form of a direct observation of our 5 year old idling some travel time in the back seat of the van, amusing himself by counting to 1000...</p> http://blog.teledyn.com/node/2323#comments the skin of culture Mon, 04 Jul 2005 22:22:33 -0400 mrG 2323 at http://blog.teledyn.com