Richmmond wrote:
Richmond Mathewson-2 wrote > > [snip] > Certainly in Britain (and here in Bulgaria) the end result of > years of pseudo-socialist thinking has resulted in a feeling > that the state must provide: all parents have to do is > produce children and after that provide food and bed, > and everything else will be provided > "from the cradle to the grave" by the nanny state: > what happens is one gets a race of slack-jawed > passive observers instead of the actively engaged, thinking > individuals one needs in a healthy society. > > Mummy and Daddy should NOT provide little Twinkle-toes > with a computer hooked up to the internet so s/he can > go blotto on online games and associated crap. > Mummy and Daddy should provide a computer stuffed with > stuff to stretch little Twinkle-toes' mind; and that means > programming environments. > But as 90% of parents are f*ckwits, and the state likes > that because those sort of 'people' (are they fully human?) > can be manipulated by the state; that doesn't happen. > Richmmond, you are describing a society of living dead. In the world where we are living too many people do not understand that the state of wealth in which they live is a consecuence of specific actions and attitudes from previous and actual generations... not a natural event, like rain, wind or sun or an entitlement or birth right. A city just have to run out of water, energy or jobs, to awake their habitants of their pleasant state. Returning to the title of this thread: How did goes your classes to teach LiveCode to a group of your English students??? Did they concluded with sucess? Any chance to read a detailed account of their learning process??? Al -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Why-killing-Media-was-killing-an-investment-in-the-future-tp4652364p4652647.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
