Re: [PCWorks] Any teachers out there?

Well, at least we know these people will all get jobs in the government 
or the financial sector, where their lack of skills will be seen as a plus.
My roommate has a PhD, in English Lit. and taught at the U of Pitt., 
then took a job at the local Community college when he moved here. Many 
horror stories.
And then there is the online style of writing, where spelling and 
grammar don't count, and PC requires you don't comment on their obvious 
ignorance and carelessness-and all this with spell-check, which they 
also don't know how to use.
I'll stop. Sorry, Clint, got a little off-topic here.



David Grossman wrote:
> You do know how to push my buttons, Hugh.
> 
> Those college kids (and I teach them) DON'T know how to read.
> 
> Hugh, today you can go to college, get a doctorate or a post-doc, and you
> don't have to know how to read.
> 
> A child who is diagnosed with a learning disability or ADD gets extra time
> on tests. He can demand that the teacher read the examination to him, as
> well as the questions about the passage. Hugh, he can demand that the
> teacher read a READING COMPREHENSION passage to him. You read that
> correctly. A college student today who is diagnosed with a "disability" (and
> the definition of that concept grows all the time) can pass a reading
> comprehension course without knowing how to read.
> 
> Now, let's apply that to computers.
> 
> These kids are required to take computer science courses, so that they can
> function in today's world. Maybe they will learn how to use the computers as
> a result, and maybe they won't. However, without the requisite study and
> reading comprehension skills, they are indeed clueless.
> 
> We mistakenly relate to these young folks as college students who are
> expected to be similar to our own classmates, back when we went to college.
> Well, it's a different world out there today.
> 
> Computer studies require a basic level of problem-solving skills. However,
> society protects the have-nots out there, and we, the computer
> professionals, had better wake up and smell the coffee.
> 
> No, please don't ask me what we're supposed to do about it when we smell
> that coffee.
> 
> David Grossman
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