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No-Tech Schools In Tech Land
manyoso writes: "This article in the Oregonian tells how some hi-tech parents at Intel are opting for a school without computers for their children. From the article: 'Conventional wisdom holds that children can only benefit from exposure to technology', but children, 'shouldn't spend first-grade skipping coloring and learning to keyboard... Emphasizing computers doesn't seem to enhance students' creativity and could even stifle it... We want them to eventually see what a computer can do for them, but only after they know what they can do for themselves.'" Clifford Stoll has argued and written along similar lines.
dem dere komputers gonna put the sin of satan in you Boy!
Now pick up that pitchfork an' git back out to tha field b'fore you makes me unleash an asswhoopin on yer fancy-shmancy komputer usin' arse.
Yay, let's not embrace technology. Shun it! For it is bad!!
Sure, you don't have to teach your child how to use a railgun before they can spell gibs... but c'mon, don't tell me you can't see the benefit of exposing youngsters to computers early on.
I said "computers", not "pr0n". Repeat, "computers", like "mag-ma"...
Basically, this is interesting, but it all boils down to doing what they feel is right for their children. That is ok by me. This DOES NOT mean you should do the same with your children, nor does it mean they are severely jaded by computers or anything else.
It was a personal decision for them. Your results may vary.
This isn't really news, in my opinion. It's a family matter, and unless Slashdot has become news for nerd-families, stuff that might matter if you have kids.
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I think the only thing public school teaches kids is how to be script kiddies. Their so called experience goes as far as push and click buttons and check menus. Their most difficult programming assignment is probably some calculator/bank account managing program using a static array in C++ or Java or Basic. If i was in high school again, I'd rather be able to know how to integrate in multiple variables and solve partial differential equations rather than learn how to use Word and C++ from incompetent teachers.