21 Apr
2012
21 Apr
'12
1:30 p.m.
On 04/21/2012 11:34 AM, Fred Cisin wrote:
Kids will feel free to misappropriate names for
items using valid and/or
significant names from anything that preceeded their coming into the
field, simply because those names have little or no significance to THEM,
and they have no respect for anybody who was already in the field before
they arrived. ("Steve Jobs invented personal computers (back before the
dawn of time - Wozniak worked for him to implement Jobs' ideas)
My youngest daughter brought home some homework the other day which talked
about Jobs and Wozniak inventing the PC (although Wozniak was spelled with
an s rather than a z), so this kind of stuff is being taught to them in
schools...
I think it's difficult to put right though, unless you have a kid who's
really into the subject; they don't care enough about the information that
it matters to them whether it's correct or not.
cheers
Jules