I have a former software developer colleague who is now teaching math at a large state university. He agrees with me that colleges and universities should educate young minds rather than train them for careers. His preference is to teach students how to think about mathematics rather than how to crank out calculations. If I were a teacher, I would add to his preference the teaching of young minds how to think critically and not accept blindly what everyone else around them believes or does.
We both began our programming careers when computing was still interesting, and there was enough time in every job to think about what was going on rather than servicing the corporate money machine. Every young person contemplating a mainframe career should spend a week reading IBM-Main. Maybe they do and that’s another reason why the profession is dying. Bill Fairchild Franklin, TN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
