Bill, I agree my gf is at a university. Young ppl for whatever reason lack critical thinking skills, not all of the youngsters, some
Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' > On Nov 5, 2013, at 6:33 AM, DASDBILL2 <dasdbi...@comcast.net> wrote: > > I have a former software developer colleague who is now teaching math at a > large state university. He agrees with me that colleges and universities > should educate young minds rather than train them for careers. His > preference is to teach students how to think about mathematics rather than > how to crank out calculations. If I were a teacher, I would add to his > preference the teaching of young minds how to think critically and not accept > blindly what everyone else around them believes or does. > > > We both began our programming careers when computing was still interesting, > and there was enough time in every job to think about what was going on > rather than servicing the corporate money machine. Every young person > contemplating a mainframe career should spend a week reading IBM-Main. Maybe > they do and that’s another reason why the profession is dying. > > > > > > Bill Fairchild > > Franklin, TN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
