That's dangerous: teaching _HOW_ to think is so, um, not like teaching what to think....<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Michael B. Trausch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike@trausch.us">mike@trausch.us</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 10:54 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:<br>
> Ah, but you just hit the nail on the head. The users already know how<br>
> to use MS/Excel because that's what they've already been exposed to.<br>
> They don't have the time to learn something new; they need to get off<br>
> the ground running.<br>
><br>
> Let's start training our younger people in Linux and OOo and then the<br>
> next generation of workers will have a choice!<br>
<br>
</div>The problem is that only perpetuates the "wrong" (by "wrong" here, I<br>
mean, less useful and less efficient) mode of thinking in the next<br>
generation. Perhaps we should be teaching them not to memorize every<br>
single bloody detail, but teaching them to memorize a framework from<br>
which new knowledge and information can be derived.<br>
<br>
Then they could use anything. Literally, anything.<br>
<br>
--- Mike<br>
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