Re: [PLUG] Tech jobs and politics, and IT diploma mills

["William H. Magill" <magill@mcgillsociety.org>]

On Monday, July 7, 2003, at 10:58  AM, Magnus wrote:
> On Monday, July 7, 2003, at 10:51 AM, Stephen Gran wrote:
> > The kids you're teaching (who I'm quite sure are idiots for the
> > most part, just like every college everywhere) are expecting 'life to 
> > be
> > fair' or some variation, but when businesses don't have to be fair, 
> > they
> > won't.
>
> FWIW, there are some real idiot teachers out there as well, and idiot 
> administrations.  My kid brother goes to Pennsylvania Institute of 
> Technology which apparently is a pit (PIT?) that young people sink a 
> couple of years into and come out the other side learning obsolete 
> skills or learning relevant subjects *incorrectly*.  The stuff he 
> brings home from school is really depressing.  I sat in on one of his 
> classes once and had to wonder where they get these instructors from.  
> They are the sorts of people who make things up if they don't know the 
> answer.

Easy...  These are the same people who believe that taking an old 16 
meg 286 out of the trash, "making it work again," and then giving it to 
people who don't have a computer is really a good thing -- because its 
better than nothing!

There is an incredibly large percentage of the population who believe 
that computers are like autombiles -- if the engine still runs, there 
is no difference between a Model T and a Crown Victoria ... they both 
get you where you want to go. The fact that one has a manual hand 
cranked starter and the other an electric one, or that one has 
air-conditioning and the other not even a heater doesn't matter.

T.T.F.N.
William H. Magill
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