Re: Bill Gates hate Windows? Awesome.
Here's a coupla things that I'd add, which are no particular worth and not in any particular order.
a) For a couple of years I had the opinion that "people had voted with their mouse clicks" that MS Word was better than commands(as in Word Perfect).
lesson learned: if MS has let it go at that I would be just fine with MS because I am all for "vox populi".
b) Apple did the same that MS did. I can remember when the school principles of our fair state were all given "complimentary" Apples and the teachers were given a massive discount on their computers. Did the supposedly intelligent teachers and principals realize what was going on? Um.. no.....and the really high end college profs still use their sacrosanct macs in protest of the horrid Microsith.
lesson learned: just because one has a degree that does not mean that one is not stupid.
c) Supposedly, according to an interview I heard with Bill many years ago, he REALLY ascribes his ability to "organize" information, and there by code, which, is, in part, about organizing snippets of actionable text..... was that he used to go to his school library to "cruise" bookshelves when he had his homework done, and after he had become bored with that......the librarian offered hims the great opportunity to shelve books, and then actually to lable and insert them, according to the Dewey decimal system. That is where he had his FIRST and REAL "hands on" experience of organizing information, as opposed to the "make work" that is fobbed off on students and parents as "developing organizational skills" by the schools.
lesson learned: the schools really have no clue about "real, useable" education, but then neither have any of the "reformers" starting with the ilk that were put in place by the Kennedy administration, and that have done nothing to improve things since.
The reason why the schools have no clue is very simple. They are bound into a never ending cycle of "theories" of education.
Instead of being allowed to "teach" they have to be on a certain page at a certain time to meet union guidelines and state guidelines, the administrators can't just "discipline" johnny they have to "discipline" him according to the latest theory so that they can protect themselves from the unending threat of lawsuits.
Just maybe, just maybe, if students were given a real, formal, chance to take a sixteen and out exam and then the scholarships to go to trade schools the people do not want to be in an "academic" setting their whole lives would not be getting off into all the temptations of the world because they would be actively engaged in improving themselves instead of be lectured to about what they "should do".
And, if they do something illegal the go to jail and break rocks. After a while of that and then being given a real scholarship to get a real trade and have a growing economy of small business to put them to work....how many billions of bucks would we save?
Then, let the ones who want to stay in academic settings do that.
d) Every single person reading this post could make a great teacher.
And why is that?
Since the time of Aristotle we have known how to teach.
What is needed is a knowledgeable person who has empathy for their fellow man(excuse the political incorrectness) and a willing student.
lesson to be learned by the gentle reader: Instead of blindly following the dictates of people who say they are smarter than you... get out and make a difference in the world.....teach something about which you are passionate to somebody.
just my thoughts, of little worth.
woodsmoke
Here's a coupla things that I'd add, which are no particular worth and not in any particular order.
a) For a couple of years I had the opinion that "people had voted with their mouse clicks" that MS Word was better than commands(as in Word Perfect).
lesson learned: if MS has let it go at that I would be just fine with MS because I am all for "vox populi".
b) Apple did the same that MS did. I can remember when the school principles of our fair state were all given "complimentary" Apples and the teachers were given a massive discount on their computers. Did the supposedly intelligent teachers and principals realize what was going on? Um.. no.....and the really high end college profs still use their sacrosanct macs in protest of the horrid Microsith.
lesson learned: just because one has a degree that does not mean that one is not stupid.
c) Supposedly, according to an interview I heard with Bill many years ago, he REALLY ascribes his ability to "organize" information, and there by code, which, is, in part, about organizing snippets of actionable text..... was that he used to go to his school library to "cruise" bookshelves when he had his homework done, and after he had become bored with that......the librarian offered hims the great opportunity to shelve books, and then actually to lable and insert them, according to the Dewey decimal system. That is where he had his FIRST and REAL "hands on" experience of organizing information, as opposed to the "make work" that is fobbed off on students and parents as "developing organizational skills" by the schools.
lesson learned: the schools really have no clue about "real, useable" education, but then neither have any of the "reformers" starting with the ilk that were put in place by the Kennedy administration, and that have done nothing to improve things since.
The reason why the schools have no clue is very simple. They are bound into a never ending cycle of "theories" of education.
Instead of being allowed to "teach" they have to be on a certain page at a certain time to meet union guidelines and state guidelines, the administrators can't just "discipline" johnny they have to "discipline" him according to the latest theory so that they can protect themselves from the unending threat of lawsuits.
Just maybe, just maybe, if students were given a real, formal, chance to take a sixteen and out exam and then the scholarships to go to trade schools the people do not want to be in an "academic" setting their whole lives would not be getting off into all the temptations of the world because they would be actively engaged in improving themselves instead of be lectured to about what they "should do".
And, if they do something illegal the go to jail and break rocks. After a while of that and then being given a real scholarship to get a real trade and have a growing economy of small business to put them to work....how many billions of bucks would we save?
Then, let the ones who want to stay in academic settings do that.
d) Every single person reading this post could make a great teacher.
And why is that?
Since the time of Aristotle we have known how to teach.
What is needed is a knowledgeable person who has empathy for their fellow man(excuse the political incorrectness) and a willing student.
lesson to be learned by the gentle reader: Instead of blindly following the dictates of people who say they are smarter than you... get out and make a difference in the world.....teach something about which you are passionate to somebody.
just my thoughts, of little worth.
woodsmoke
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