Bill Gates Proclaims US High Schools Obsolete

bryan sent us a story about Bill Gates' take on US High Schools. He says 'America's high schools are obsolete. By obsolete, I don't just mean that they're broken, flawed or underfunded, though a case could be made for every one of those points. By obsolete, I mean our high schools even when they're working as designed cannot teach all our students what they need to know today.'"

Comments

Bill Gates is right

[Anonymous Coward]

CmdrTaco went to high school and he still can't even edit Slashdot properly.

Re:Bill Gates is right

[darkmeridian]

CmdrTaco went to high school and he still can't even edit Slashdot properly.

That's because he's overqualified now.

Re:Bill Gates is right

[Anonymous Coward]

Bingo. This is why people shouldn't demonize child molesters, murderers, Republican presidents, etc., until they have actually done these things themselves.

Just a stab in the dark...

[D-Cypell]

This critique doesnt happen to co-incide with the release of "Microsoft US high school 2005" does it?

New in Microsoft Office family

[News for nerds]

Microsoft HighSchool 2006

Just like Linux

[Turn-X Alphonse]

Try this version

He says 'Linux is obsolete. By obsolete, I don't just mean that it's broken, flawed or junk, though a case could be made for every one of those points. By obsolete, I mean Linux even when working as designed compare to windows today.'

It's all the same drivel with a few words edited. I suggest we stop posting crap by this guy because he's clearly talking out his arse all the time and only gets away with it because he rode the "in 2000 we'll be in flying cars" fad of his era and is now a rich bastard out of touch with the world he helped create.

Contrast that with the Magical School

[seppy]

Now the magical school, that is where the action is. I can't figure out why people send their kids to public schools, because studies by Magical Schools for Action has proven that "Magical Schools that Solve All Probable and Forseeable Problems" get better test scores. Man, I just don't get people who haven't taken that next step into the future. It's there waiting for you, we just can't keep educating this kids like we're doing it now. Enroll your child in a Magical School that Solves All Probable and Forseeable Problems today. You'll be glad you did.

College and now Highschool

[page275]

I think what he (Gates) suggested is: "The richest man of today dropped out of college 20 years ago because he thought college sucked. Kids today must be better, they should drop out of high-school for their best success".

Re:I agree!

[SnapShot]

Perhaps the solution is to stop referring children into grades. Rather there could be the concept of Groups. Alphas would be the future researchers and intellectual workers of the world. Betas would be the middle managers and skilled craftspeople. Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons would form the broad class of moderately skilled to unskilled labor. With a gramme of soma this structure could certainly work.

The problem is in trying to identify the various groups as young as possible (perhaps even before birth). Hmmmm....

Re:Left hand side of the Curve

[rwyoder]

"The most blunt assessment came from Microsoft chief Bill Gates, who has put more than $700 million into reducing the size of high school classes through the foundation formed by him and his wife, Melinda. He said high schools must be redesigned to prepare every student for college"

And this is coming from a man who never graduated from college.

Not tru

[re-Verse]

I lurned lots in hi skuwl

In other news...

[spiritraveller]

Microsoft today announced that it is beginning development on a new suite of educational applications to be known as MSHighSchool 2.0.

Re:Bill Gates is wrong.

[chachob]

But, seriously, to lump all high schools as failed is just like, say, lumping all Microsoft software as insecure, bloated, unstable, etc, etc.

So you're saying he's correct?

Re:I agree!

[JAFSlashdotter]

Perhaps the solution is to stop referring children into grades. Rather there could be the concept of Groups. Alphas would be the future researchers and intellectual workers of the world. Betas would be the middle managers and skilled craftspeople. Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons would form the broad class of moderately skilled to unskilled labor. With a gramme of soma this structure could certainly work.

The problem is in trying to identify the various groups as young as possible (perhaps even before birth). Hmmmm....

And if we just herd people into vocational training early for a few years, no one who read Brave New World will actually be around anymore to recognize it. Brilliant!