If the members of boards of education were, in fact, educated people themselves much of this nonsense would be avoided! Until then I may be a good thing that they don't try to teach anything important so as not to wind up vulgarizing and trivializing it. Evolution as a sound-bite about Darwin!
In my daughter's so-called 'Geometry' class in high school, planar forms were 'studied'. Formulas were memorized. The concepts of doing proofs and logical deduction or formal systems were not mentioned. When I brought this up to the teacher ( a sports coach) he didn't know what I was talking about.
Education as vocational school doesn't need this stuff, and besides isn't thinking a little suspect in America anyway these days?
This petty criticism of RMS just goes to show that Neanderthals can learn to write code and still be knuckle-walkers. Without the GNU project founded by RMS what would computing be like today? A little respect is in order even from those who disagree with idea of favoring free software and that some evolution is possible for those whose psychological development was arrested somewhere in the early teens .
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If the members of boards of education were, in fact, educated people themselves much of this nonsense would be avoided! Until then I may be a good thing that they don't try to teach anything important so as not to wind up vulgarizing and trivializing it. Evolution as a sound-bite about Darwin!
In my daughter's so-called 'Geometry' class in high school, planar forms were 'studied'. Formulas were memorized. The concepts of doing proofs and logical deduction or formal systems were not mentioned. When I brought this up to the teacher ( a sports coach) he didn't know what I was talking about.
Education as vocational school doesn't need this stuff, and besides isn't thinking a little suspect in America anyway these days?
Amin! or whatever the correct expression is!
This petty criticism of RMS just goes to show that Neanderthals can learn to write code and still be knuckle-walkers. Without the GNU project founded by RMS what would computing be like today? A little respect is in order even from those who disagree with idea of favoring free software and that some evolution is possible for those whose psychological development was arrested somewhere in the early teens .