Our Education System Is Failing IT

Nemo the Magnificent (2786867) writes "In this guy's opinion most IT workers can't think critically. They are incapable of diagnosing a problem, developing a possible solution, and implementing it. They also have little fundamental understanding of the businesses their employers are in, which is starting to get limiting as silos are collapsing within some corporations and IT workers are being called upon to participate in broader aspects of the business. Is that what you see where you are?"

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Re:education doesn't work

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"No child left behind" is the expression that George W Bush was using to direct the education system. Essentially that means that classes need to slow down to the pace of the slowest pupil making all knives in the box blunt and useless.

It is interesting to realize that in 2001 (before 9/11) George W Bush did meet the Social Democratic party leader and then prime minister Göran Persson who earlier was heading the schooling department. The slogan "No child left behind" does match very well with the standpoint that the Social Democratic party has - that the class shall be slowed to the pace of the slowest pupil and that no grades shall be awarded until very late in the schooling.

The following quote is suitable when it comes to education:

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.
Robert A. Heinlein