20 Aug
2004
20 Aug
'04
8:55 a.m.
At 00:15 20/08/2004, Tony Duell wrote:
My experience suggests that people are naturally
curious about things,
but that schools are designed to remove that curiosity. Fortunately it
didn't work in my case :-). I learnt almost nothing at school --
everything I now use I taught myself (thankfully, from books that were a
lot more advanced than th eaverage school textbook).
I must agree totally. The only things school contributed to my career path
was the TRS-80 Model 1's we were allowed to book time on at lunchtime and
after school. [I never did find out if there was actually a class that
used them.] I'd previously been doing electronics as a hobby, this shifted
me into computing (with an electronics bent - I was quite happy to build up
a ZX81 kit, etc) My skills ever since have been totally self-taught, and I
think they are better for it. (Just makes it harder to find a new job when
I can't show them pretty pieces of paper..)
Rob