[ale] A Real Sad Loss for Open Source in the Atlanta Area

[Jim Kinney]

That's dangerous: teaching _HOW_ to think is so, um, not like teaching what
to think....

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Michael B. Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:

> On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 10:54 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > Ah, but you just hit the nail on the head.  The users already know how
> > to use MS/Excel because that's what they've already been exposed to.
> > They don't have the time to learn something new; they need to get off
> > the ground running.
> >
> > Let's start training our younger people in Linux and OOo and then the
> > next generation of workers will have a choice!
>
> The problem is that only perpetuates the "wrong" (by "wrong" here, I
> mean, less useful and less efficient) mode of thinking in the next
> generation.  Perhaps we should be teaching them not to memorize every
> single bloody detail, but teaching them to memorize a framework from
> which new knowledge and information can be derived.
>
> Then they could use anything.  Literally, anything.
>
>        --- Mike
>
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