On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 08:33:39 -0400
"Anthony J. Albert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> (*) - Yeah, I know, I know, but the faculty has demanded that we offer
> MS Office as the suite, because, quote, 'this is what the students will
> encounter when they leave here'. I've been using StarOffice or
> WordPerfect for DOS at home, myself.
At a state-run community college from which I earned a degree in
systems analysis and programming, the faculty would always tell
me that it is not the purpose of the institution to teach me what
I want to learn, but rather to teach me the knowledge and skills
that are most highly in demand by area employers. It is the
mission of the educational institution to turn out students with
highly marketable skills. If I just want to pursue my own
personal intellectual interests, then I will have to do that
either entirely on my own or through the help of some private
educational institution or tutors. Because the taxpayers are
helping to fund the state-run institutions, the taxpayers must be
appeased. They would complain if the state-run educational
systems were teaching skills that they consider relatively
useless when it comes to being able to compete in today's modern
job markets. I had to learn to use Micro$oft Word for Windows,
and I even bought a copy of it for my home computer, just so I
could learn how to use it. When I wrote my term papers and
essays and reports, I just used an old DOS word-processor that I
liked named Keyword Pro. I liked it because the whole thing will
run on a single floppy, with thesaurus, spell check, and all.
Also it does footnotes and different font sizes and it does bold
and underlined and italic text. It even supports special
characters. What more could anyone want for writing a term paper?
Why should a student have to waste an entire semester in learning
how to use Micro$oft Word when he can learn Keyword Pro in a
couple of hours, even without a teacher? Of course there are many
other very fine DOS word-processors that have just as many nice
features as Keyword Pro and they also are very easy to learn.
Sam Heywood
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