[Techtalk] Linux in Higher Learning

[the unseen]

I sit corrected. :-) You are right, I guess my statement was overzealous 
and I do agree with you that the more students get exposed to in 
college (OSes, languages, etc.), the more techniques/schools of thought 
they have to apply problems.  It's akin to going down only one aisle 
in a hardware store.  You only get one type of tools as opposed to 
seeing several aisles where you get different tools for different 
situations.  

 I like the fact that your school teaches theory and leaves the students 
to think and figure out applications and uses.  I think they don't 
think we can think at my school. Maybe they don't want us to...I 
know I want to think, that's why I am in college.  I want to see 
new and interesting things and apply them in ways I find interesting/constructive/useful.
That's what education is for...not only to make money. :-(

-Derek

At Thursday, 7 June 2001, Jill Cote <year2099 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
>FYI: 
>While it is true that MS does dominate the newer "techies"...I believe 
this statement is a bit over zealous. 
>I go to Baruch College, which is a CUNY school (City Univiversity 
of New York) and this is not the case.
>Matter of fact, the only OS classes covers all of the major OSes.
  FYI- Baruch is a business school.  The courses 
>concentrate on theory and it is the students resposibity to figure 
the applications of it.  I believe the learning curve to stand up 

>on your feet is not a steep with MS as the UNIX type OS, nor it 
is a timidating, although this is changing.  But, truly learning 

>them all and exposing ourselves to the differnces can only make 
us learn more.  
>Enough said.  JC
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