____/ Hadron on Tuesday 15 January 2008 12:48 : \____
> Gordon <gbplinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> cc wrote:
>>> On Jan 11, 4:23 am, "[H]omer" <s...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> Verily I say unto thee, that Ramon F Herrera spake thusly:
>>>>
>>>>> Sometimes "the right thing", specially in countries like Nigeria or
>>>>> Venezuela includes overthrowing the corrupt and illegitimate regime.
>>>> Unfortunately that often results in it merely being replaced by another
>>>> equally corrupt and illegitimate regime. The only way out of this catch
>>>> 22 is to change the *people*, and to do that one must educate them. Yet
>>>> another catch 22, since the question of how they are educated, and with
>>>> *which* PC, is the very cause of this particular thread of corruption.
>>>>
>>>
>>> That's the biggest load of horseshit I've seen yet. Getting educated
>>> with the wrong PC leads to never ending corruption? Any education (as
>>> long as it's not indoctrination), with any PC, is only a good thing.
>>
>> The major problem (certainly in the UK) is that pupils are not taught
>> COMPUTING skills, they are taught APPLICATION skills, which in the
>> main means MS Office.....
>
> If you got to a secretarial college or an account drone certification
> school. Universities teach computing skills and ways of looking at
> issues. Or the rather the good ones do.
It's not computer skills and it's not computer education. It's
called "Microsoft training".
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~~ Best of wishes
"One person in Helsinki can quickly write the core of a sophisticated operating
system."
--John Warden, lead attorney Microsoft
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