Reminds me of all the retail and food service people not knowing how to count change ... do it sometime for the laugh ... when your order for a Big Mac and Coke come to $4.03 and you give the person at the register a $5.00 note, dig into your pocket and give them three cents AFTER they have rung up the register. More often than not, they don't know what to do ... the computer is telling them to give you $0.97 back and they haven't quit figured out why you gave them the three cents so you could get one dollar back rather than a handful of change. The inevitable look of confusion on their face is priceless ... sometimes they just give me my three cents back followed by a whole handful of change, never even bothering to count out my change to me in the correct fashion.
While I love my computers and the time I spend with them, I never let them think for me ...
Ciao,
L
On Monday, Sep 8, 2003, at 23:30 US/Eastern, Powermac wrote:
What the school board member was actually trying to say is that kids can use
microsoft office to learn word processing , same program everybody else
uses.
I think schools are trying to teach kids to be conformists, not to be free
thinkers and to learn tasks in different ways. If there are 5 ways to do
something your kid must do it the 1 way the teacher thinks it has to be done
(or is told it has to be done by the school board).
I worked with an older guy who said his kid can only tell time with a digital clock, how lame is that.
Are kids taught to learn anymore or just recite stuff back to the teacher?
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