I suspect this is like anything..why can't they learn both? There are MUCH larger problems with our eduction system than which OS to learn. I'd much rather have them at a very young age begin to learn other languages, a more broadly based education in general will help them in many areas.
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 6:10 AM, phartz...@gmail.com <phartz...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:40 PM, Reid Katan <ka...@his.com> wrote: > > > And I suspect it'll be increasingly harder to find people who have *no* > > experience with computers. So I would expect that most would have enough > > experience to get *started* using a computer. > > But what is the "right" computer OS to learn? Should school systems > teach students to use Windows and associated software because that is > what is preferred by most businesses? That seems to currently be the > case as schools appear to be inching ever closer to being more like > trade and industry learning centers than institutions where one > receives a more broadly based education. > > Steve > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
