22 Jun
2004
22 Jun
'04
10:47 a.m.
Problem is,
that's _not_ what's taught. Actually, I am not convinced
anything worthwhile is taught in schools any more :-(
I don't know enough to comment, only that the results are generally
disappointing. Perhaps I was atypical for my generation, but I read
heaps of things
when I was young
(apart from lots of fiction, there were useful things like "Look and
Learn")
I read very little fiction, but I must have several thousand non-fiction
books (mostly on maths, engineering, electronics, etc), and I read them
all the time. I must be the only person who regards 'radio and television
serviceing' (annual volumes of circuits and service notes for radios and
TVs) as light bedtime reading, but it's amazing how many useful tricks
you learn analusing those circuits.
as we didn't have much TV and no computers to
waste time with. Of
All I can say is that when digital TV comes, I'm not going to bother
buying a decoder. There are plenty more interesting things to spend my
time doing.
-tony