On Monday 03 April 2006 21:38, Gregory Pittman wrote: > pixelnate wrote: > > This guy was pushing his open source agenda on the paying students > > taking his class. Unless there is an alternate class where the students > > get to use 'real (working) world' applications, this guy is doing them a > > disservice. > > One of the things a university education is supposed to do is to open up > your mind, and hopefully in the case of art students, open to the idea > that the creativity is in the mind of the student, not in the software. > For a student to get hung-up on whether or not they're learning the > commands for this or that other piece of software suggests they should > have just gone to a technical school.
100% agree. Uni should be teaching you how to think not what to think... or in this case.. what design is about, not what a program to *help* you design (it, not design for you) is about. Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 191 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20060403/b424679f/attachment.pgp
