Hello Jerry,
"Jerry J. Haumberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
}- Education should never be treated as a mere marketable
}- commodity.
[snip]
Once again I completely agree. I'm sad to say that my son's high
school graduating class (1992) seems to be one of the last to get
any education in logic, DOS, and the command line. (At least in
my area of the United States.) They began teaching him DOS in the
6th grade and then intensified in junior high school. By the time
he was in high school, his "final exam" was to design, build,
admistrate and maintain a Novell network of machines, and a
separate robotics network for his entire last semester before
graduating. He got a truely good and *useful* public education.
The first thing he did after he graduated was take the Novell CNE
exam and he passed it easily on the first try. Then he took some
individual classes at the local community college, which my
husband and I gladly paid for. Meanwhile he got a job as system
admin at the largest local real estate in Kansas City and paid
for the rest of his education himself. Then he took more Novell
classes and some Micro$oft classes, got several Micro$oft
certifications as well. Now takes care of their entire computer
and phone network, recently has installed ISDN, including pulling
much of the cable himself. He's in charge of all hardware and
software (except one special app they have an in-house programmer
for). He makes 45K a year and he's only 25 years old. That's
only 9K less than my husband, and he's 49 years old.
I'm a proud mother of course, but the reason I tell the story of
my son is to show what can be done with a good basic education in
computers, DOS and related things. It's a real shame it's no
longer being taught this way.
Boanne
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