Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site houxm.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!gregbo From: gregbo@houxm.UUCP (Greg Skinner) Newsgroups: net.college Subject: Re: computer science and carpentry in high school Message-ID: <1075@houxm.UUCP> Date: Thu, 10-Jan-85 17:08:15 EST Article-I.D.: houxm.1075 Posted: Thu Jan 10 17:08:15 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jan-85 01:18:04 EST References: <255@harvard.ARPA> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 14 harvard!marie makes a good point about the sales register people who panicked when the computer went offline. If computer science is going to be taught in high school or any earlier schools, it should not be substituted for basic training in math and sciences. I have seen too many examples of people who know how to use calculators to add/subtract etc. but cannot do it themselves, nor have any conception of how one might go about doing it. The sad thing is that many of these people start out when they are young ignorant of basic math and science and grow up still knowing nothing. -- Baby tie your hair back in a long white bow ... Meet me in the field, behind the dynamo ... Greg Skinner (gregbo) {allegra,cbosgd,ihnp4}!houxm!gregbo