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>>>>>They will probably succeed in making a large segment of a generation of
kids
loathe and avoid computers because they associate them with school
crap.<<<<<<<



That happened to Cameron. He HATED the computer. Hated typing/keyboarding.
Dreaded walking into the computer room @ school.

But less than one year out of school, he was, by far, the fastest typist in
our family. He still is. And he understands how the thing works and why---and
can fix most of our problems (except the one last week! <g>).

I bet there are still kids there who are 'puter-avoident.

Damn schools.

~Kelly


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> >>>>>They will probably succeed in making a large segment of a
generation of
> kids
> loathe and avoid computers because they associate them with school
> crap.<<<<<<<


I have often wondered about that. When I worked at Microsoft, most of
the people I know started out in computers as self-taught. We were
the generation whose parents had an Atari or an Apple IIe, or even a
TRS-80. Everything on computers was learned via Unschooling, in a
sense, because schools hadn't yet caught on to it. I wonder, now that
computers are taught as a subject starting in early gradeschool, if
the people graduating with computer science degrees in 12 or 15 years
will have so much less creativity and ability to think outside the
box with respect to programming, because someone taught them exactly
how to do it instead of discovering it for themselves. I wonder if
the U.S. will lose their edge in the computer software industry
eventually because of this. I think we have had the edge for a long
time because most of our great programmers were self-taught and
creative and innovative.

Blue Skies,
-Robin-