[NTLUG:Discuss] procmail

[Kendall Clark]

>>>>> "lance" == lance  <lljones at kickinit.net> writes:

    lance> Insert my rant ....

    lance> If we did not have a country full of students being held
    lance> down to dull and dreary requirement's just to make the
    lance> grade, we would most probably have a more intelligent group
    lance> of adults in the work place, instead of 80% or more of
    lance> employee's (like at my work place) who can not get past
    lance> Step 1, Step 2, Step 3, unless it's on a flow chart step by
    lance> step laid out in front of them.

    lance> end rant......  begin your rave.

<rave> Or, what good does it do to learn how to "use the Internet",
i.e., use AltaVista and Netscape, when you are subliterate? If you
don't have any idea what a 'boolean' is, how are you ever going to
know why you might want to search for "Linux and North Texas" or
"NTLUG or 'North Texas Linux Users Group'"?

The great problem with the Internet now is, of course, that there is
so much information available, you can be overwhelmed without any way
of sorting through to find what you want. Well, if our schools would
focus more on teaching basics, including critical thinking skills,
rather than the latest ephemera of how to use the newest version of
some Microsoft dreck, people might be able to tell the good from the
bad on the Internet.

As it stands, though, the Internet is fairly useless if you are
subliterate and don't know how to think critically about the world
around you. It doesn't matter how many search engine tricks you know
if you can't think very well.

The Internet is just the latest in a long-line of educational
distractions; when I was in junior high public school in Houston, it
was the 'film strip' and the 'educational film'. In a year or two it
will be something else.

Students would be *infinitely* better off if we instead taught them
how to:

    - read
    - write
    - think critically and rationally
    - hard math and science

If you have 3 out of 4 of those skills, you can do just about
anything. Without *any* of them, no amount of 'computer in the
classroom' is gonna save your butt or get you a job.
</rave>

Best,

Kendall