I agree! And teachers are making it worse. When my older son did a science project once there were a lot of spelling and grammatical errors. Not only did the teacher not even bother to flag them; she said it was not her job to correct them -- she was science not English!
When I went through, I lost marks for that, even in science class! The attitude was: as long as he got his point across it was good enough. Good enough is NOT good enough! - -teD - Original Message From: Staller, Allan Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 09:23 To: [email protected] Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: Sorry state of IT education? Not just IT. The entire education system from k-12 through bachelor's degree... Al Staller | Z Systems Programmer | KBM Group | (Tel) 972 664-3565 | [email protected] <snip> Not too surprising to me. I imagine this is the norm for today because a well educated, intelligent, worker costs a lot more than a preprogrammed drone. http://www.informationweek.com/strategic-cio/executive-insights-and-innovation/the-sorry-state-of-it-education/d/d-id/1204552 <quote> Our profession is rife with people capable of performing procedures they've been taught, but incapable of thinking through a problem. Here's what we need to do. </quote> </snip> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
