--- Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jan Coffey wrote:
>
> > I am suggesting that education should be tailored to the individual to
> use
> > and highlight that individuals strengths. We do this anyway (FREX
> exempting
> > Dyslexics from forign language requirments). Each individual should be
> > allowed to find the nich in which they can best contribute to society,
> and
> > they should be allowed to do so at their own pace (faster or slower).
> This
> > would benifit the society and increase the societies efficiency by using
> the
> > best of what each individuals strengths have to offer. It benifit's the
> > individual becouse they would not have to be constrained by their
> weeknesses,
> > especialy when they have strengths that would benifit society. If we had
> such
> > an education system, the gender differences would no-longer matter.
>
> You could modify foreign language requirements in some cases. For some
> degree plans at some point, UT Austin started allowing American Sign
> Language for the foreign language requirements.
>
> And some degree plans, EE for one, had *no* foreign language
> requirements, probably because there were so many required courses that
> if you had to take, say, 13 hours (3 semesters) of a foreign language,
> there was no *way* you could get out of there in 8 semesters, not even
> theoretically. Interestingly enough, the gender ratio in EE was very
> skewed when I was there (I only knew 2 female EE students, out of
> probably 30 EE students, and one of them I met because she was the lab
> partner of one of the guys I'd known for awhile up to that point), and
> one could argue that the skills needed to be good at EE were *not* the
> sorts of skills needed for foreign language study, and from what you've
> written on this thread regarding gender/skills correlations, this
> wouldn't surprise you very much.
Yea, I tried getting out of foring language at UT. For a year or so, they
were thinking to move CS back to Egeneering. I remember the day that Dr.
Fussel told me that wasn't happening. Ruined my schedule as I had to take 3
symestes of forign language. My wife got out of it by being a forigin
student. (that never seemed fair). We were both CS. She took all of the more
information type classes, and I took more theory. We make a good team.
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