John Zelle wrote: >At the risk of sounding like Arthur, quotes (actually indirect references) >like this make me question the wisdom of Kay as an education guru. I have no >idea what the context for this statement is, but it sounds patently >ridiculous. > At the risk of sounding like Arthur ;) - "patently ridiculous" sounds about right, and Kay has been wise in working - until now - as a Pied Piper and outside of the environment of responsble academia (for those of us who recognize there to be such a thing) in promulgating his ideas and populating his Posse.
I don't even need to be right about my assessment of Kay. I just know that it is reasonable assessment, even if wrong. And one of the hallmarks of sounding like Arthur, I like to think, is getting louder when being told that things like being guided by common sense, and such like is a relic of the past and the symptom of an obsolete and archaic point of view. Kay's appeal is largely his Millenialism, Kirby eats it up, and Arthur cries bullshit. This article by a UCLA professor, which manages to express more coherently than I some of the concerns I have tried to express on edu-sig. http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/academe.html BTW, I don't agree with everyting in it. But recognize a voice from responsible academia within it. Art _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
