I agree, I think that what would push linux into school that why I don't bother going to the school before having something to show up, a lot of shchonot metzoka might earn a lot from the idea. thanks to Alon who send me the site of matach (http://www.cet.ac.il/) I see some of their programs are above the ability of a bit below average family to buy. anyhow by what I remember from their programs they should work on wine, can someone confirm?
Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Thu, Jan 02, 2003, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote about "Re: Edu in linux": > > home. The Windows vocabulary has entered our daily Hebrew speech. My kids > > (all 10 of them) had to submit a portion of their homework assignments in > > .doc format (Gush Etzion school system) for the past four years. My wife > > is in a masters program at Touro College and Beit Morasha where the > > homework assignments are distributed in Word and the homework must be > > submitted in Word. I suggest that you actually go try to talk to these > > people about Linux and see what happens. > > What you describe is a typical arrogance that appears to pervail in our > education system, where kids need to mold themselves into the "system" and > not the other ways around. Demands are made on kids without trying to think > whether these demands are reasonable for all kids or actually beneficial > to any of them. > > Recently Channel 2 news carried a story about large families (like yours) > whose schools demand 500 shekels a year (or more) from each child for > school trips. For the school it's much easier and nicer to force everyone > to fit this mold and not "cause problems". But what does a person earning 4000 > shekels and having "just" 5 kids, do? What does the same person do when his > kids' school force his children to write homework on their home computer > (so one computer is not enough for all the children, just like one desk > is not enough for all of them), or to buy specific software that his childrens' > teachers demand? > Should this hypothetic guy be told to pirate commercial software? Is that > any better than telling him "if you can't afford paying for your kid's school > trips, why don't you just rob a bank?" > > There should not be a "digital divide" inside schools... > > -- > Nadav Har'El | Thursday, Jan 2 2003, 28 Tevet 5763 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- > Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |I started out with nothing... I still > http://nadav.harel.org.il |have most of it. > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
