RE: Re: Education (Was Re: Techwriting After the Boom)

["GeneK" <gene -at- genek -dot- com>]

Looking back on my own childhood, I don't think that I or 
my teachers at the time ever imagined the present that we 
are living today. Much of the technology I've been working 
on, whether as an engineer or a writer, was the stuff of 
science fiction during the 1950's and 60's when I was in 
school. IMO, the old, traditional learn-it-by-rote style 
of education that I received gave me a much better base of 
knowledge and better thinking skills than what I see 
today's school children getting. After all, it's the same 
kind of education that most of the people who invented 
today's technologies got. 

Gene Kim-Eng 


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Mon, 9 Jun 2003 08:26:41 -0700 (PDT) Mark L. Levinson?wrote:


It may be that especially in our own 
generations, when the job of the school is 
evidently to prepare children to confront a 
future that is not yet imaginable, teaching
them to think and how to muster and organize 
knowledge may be no less important than 
inculcating the knowledge itself.


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