9 May
2010
9 May
'10
2:51 p.m.
On Sun, 9 May 2010, Tony Duell wrote:
The administration offices are on the fourth floor, amenable to
defenestration.
Last XMAS, they had a potlock in the basement auditorium, making a cask of
Amontillado a viable option.
> The
administration has cancelled ASM
WOuld anybody mind if I cancelled the
administration ? Painfully? As I have said many times before, I leant nothing
useful at school. The
fact that I didn;t have one clueful mathementics of physics teacher may
have something to do with that. That $deity I had access to interesting
books...
You don't want to get me started on what they are trying to do to the
library. ""Kernighan & Ritchie" and "Knuth" are more than
five years old,
they should be replaced with something more current!" I used to use
astronomy as a counter argument, but now they think that ALL of those must
be replaced to reflect Pluto's "demotion".
[Oh, I learnt plenty of things while I was at school.
Like how to pick a
lock, how to make a master key, how to design state machines, and the
like. But that was not what I was supposed to be learning).
"supposed to be"??
A good teacher doesn't REALLY mind deviating a little from the lesson
plan.
Too much emphassis is placed on paper qualifications
these days... It's a
problem for me, since I don't have any particularly relevant ones. Lack
of these bits of paper does not mean you can't do the job, conversely
having them doesn't mean you can... Oh well...
College administrators who know that they will be laid off someday assign
THEMSELVES credentials! Then they can be re-assigned to teach when nobody
above them has the guts to fire them! REALLY!
I agree with the statemetn that 'every child
should learn to program. Not
because they will become programmer,s but becuase programming teaches you
to think logically about solving problems and to break up problems into
simple steps'/ Or something like that anyway...
I also see way too many students who were never handed a bulb, a battery,
a nail, and some pieces of wire, . . .
I have a bad case of "short-timer syndrome" - 6.16 semesters to go.
I have to keep a low profile, which is quite difficult for me.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com