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