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Steve Furber On Why Kids Are Turned Off To Computing Classes
nk497 writes "UK computing legend Steve Furber — co-founder of Acorn and ARM designer — believes students are avoiding computing classes because they teach nothing but the boring basics. Currently studying why the number of students signing up for computing has halved in the past eight years, Furber said schools focus too much on teaching kids how to use spreadsheets, word processors and PowerPoint, rather than teaching more challenging areas such as programming. 'What schools are presenting as ICT as an academic subject is very mundane compared with what students know they can do,' he said. 'It's as if maths was just arithmetic or English was taught as just spelling. It's not unimportant that you can do arithmetic or you can spell, but it certainly doesn't open up the whole world of interest and challenge, if that's all you do.'"
Progressives don't give a sh*t about kids, they just want a society engineered for easy control. That's why you'll find them on both sides of the political spectrum. And going off yours and the username of the person you replied to, why sane people don't want to back OR forward, whereas nutcases only want to avoid going back.
What is the Public Education? Control. The Public Education system is a bureaucratic-generated dream world built to keep us under control. In order to change a human being into this.
Democrats or Republicans. They are both taking us to the same place and they are not afraid of us anymore.
When the work was done, out came the joysticks..
So... you had a big circle jerk at the end of class?