Re: [SLUG] operating systems and schools

[Terry Collins <terryc@nospam.woa.com.au>]

David Foster wrote:
> 
> The most important R of all Research. If you can teach someone how to
> research, they can learn anything. Uni does not teach (spoon feed), the
> student is expected to Research, the lecturers and tutors are there to
> provide guidance.

Huh! - what you on boy?
Uni's are degree factories. I've been on faculty boards at three
different places and the greater concern was to maximise the flow on
of students between each year. Most students fail, especially in
engineering!

Even David Kemp and the other pollies will tell you that uni's are
really there to train you for work in industry, i.e. fill jobs slots.

But, you are absolutely corect that teaching people how to teach
themselves is the best long term solution. Give people an education
and their health and they will keep themselves employed.


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Terry Collins <terryc@nospam.woa.com.au>
> To: <slug@nospam.slug.org.au>
> Cc: David Foster <bridgeport@nospam.australians.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 11:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] operating systems and schools
> 
> > David Foster wrote:

> > > belief in the 4 R's (and plenty of books) is all that is needed.
> >
> > Reading, writing, aRithmetic and R?
> >
>
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