[SLUG] operating systems and schools

[Tim Sutton <tim@nospam.activeweb.co.za>]

Some thoughts on the matter from my wife (a trained teacher and linux widow)...

There are two types of schools - ones that aim to give you training, and ones
that aim to educate you. Teaching linux at school provides education, teaching
Windows at school provides training. Both are important, but not equal.

A linux junkie and his fortune cookie wife in South Africa...


Tim Sutton


On Tue, 01 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> Alexander Else wrote:
> > 
> ....snip...
> 
> > but wait, that's not right.  let's ignore the investment in expense, time
> > and resources used to create these applications and start from scratch on a
> > new platform that none of the existing users know how to use.  but that's
> > ok cause we can throw some money into training them and the loss of
> > productivity during this period isn't really that important.  i mean, the
> > customers won't mind if we're a bit slow off the mark.  and so what if our
> > IT people don't feel competant to admin production unix machines?  they can
> > learn like anyone else.  it's not like something bad would ever happen, right?
> 
> Umm, is it just me late at night, or is this a bit oxymoronic?
> Don't do anything new, because we have such an investment in the
> existing system and someone might be inconvenience.
> 
> But, isn't this what the IT industry spends all it's time doing?
> Throwing out the baby with the bathwater and starting all over again?
> 
> 
> 
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