Re: Testing job applicants

[albaugh@agames.com (Mike Albaugh)]

Howard N. Lute (hnlute@optcamel.com) wrote:

: In article <37d7cf96.175975182@mindmeld.idcomm.com>, edick@hotmail.com 
: says...
: [ Diatribe on "kds today", or rather "education today", but whatever...]

: Jeez...you sure have EXPECTATIONS, don't you?!
: I copied your diatribe...8-) and gave it to a teacher friend to read to 
: his wood shop/drafting classes, you are RIGHT ON!

	You guys still have _shop_!?! In my kids's highschool, pretty
much all "practical" education is gone (no shop, no home-ec., etc).
Instead, they _do_ offer Web-design and "Intro to programming, C++".
Great, so in 50 years we will have even more dancing banner-ads
and crash-prone code (Hey, the guys who wrote the foundation classes
will be dead, and nobody will have a clue what was in them), but nothing
to eat, because nobody remembers how to cook...

	And no one will be able to read any of the old books, because
they are "too hard", and besides, everybody's vocabulary will be shot
to hell from reading and writing "spell-checked" prose that is more
like "Ladle Rat Rotten Hut" than actual English Prose. I found several
of this sort of error in Neal Stephenson's new "Cryptonimicon". Apparently
even major publishers like Hearst/Avon have replaced proofreaders
will spelling-checker software...

					Mike

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