Tech v. Education

With all due respect. 

When I was a freshman. (3rd form) I went to Public School (US version) They had two tracks. The University track (college track) and the track for those who intended not to go beyond High School. That track focused on Mechanical Drawing, wood shop metal shop, typing, home economics. I took advantage of those options to take typing and mechanical drawing before transferring to The Prep.

True, in part, about practical applications. US High Schools are supposed to "educate" students not train them.

English courses, teach students to communicate.

Math courses will prepare students for tech [read, math] Geometry, true, is valuable only to those students who intend to become architects or geometry teacher.

History, well.... "Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it." Santayana

Those who never learned history are doomed--Period!" Slim Fairview

The Quotations of Slim Fairview. © 2017

We also have the alternative: Vo-Tech. Vocational / Technical. Public Schools, Private Schools, and Vo-Tech schools can teach AI.

I became a website designer 1. January 2000.  That career did not exist when I was at School or at University.  And though it is very possible that what students learn today may still be viable when they turn 47, there may be careers that don't exist today.  Op cit, Website designer.  

Web design is not so much technology--I used Front Page 2000®--as it is design.  This came from a semester of art at University and Art in Grammar School and High School.  

People, today, have little concept of the education of the 50s and the 60s and cite what they don't know as a fictive device to advance their agenda.

Read BOTH

Democracy - & the Fall of the Athenian Republic

Alexander Tyler & James Olson

http://www.theroadtoemmaus.org/RdLb/21PbAr/Hst/US/DmocAthnsUS.htm

And

Fall of the Athenian Republic

http://www.snopes.com/politics/ballot/athenian.asp

Regards,

Slim,

Copyright © 2017 Bob Asken

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The Bug and the Bird

Through the magic of metaphor, I’ve just finished washing and waxing the car and am now on the porch sitting next to a pitcher of home squeezed lemonade and a plate of Moravian sugar cookies.

Just then, a bug from the garden across the road flies over to chat. And no sooner than he does, a bird from down the road lands on the back of the other chair to join us.

He looks at the car then looks at me and says, “Some days you’re the windshield, some days you’re the bird,” and laughs.

I hear the bug sigh.

“What’s the matter?” I ask.

He replies, “Some days you’re the windshield, some days you’re the bug.”

The bird laughs.

“Yes?” I ask.

“It’s always good to be the bird.  It’s never good to be the bug.” He laughs again.

“What about the windshield?”

The bird replies, “You win some, you lose some. But you’re always the windshield.” He laughs again then says, “Well, I’ll be off.”

The bug and I watch as the bird flies away.

“Well, I guess I’ll head back to the garden,” the bug says and flies off.

I watch as the bug flies across the road.

The bird dives for the bug.

The bird smashes into the windshield of a passing car.

Warmest regards,

Slim

slimfairview@yahoo.com 

Others by Slim Fairview

You Can't Fool the Lion

Five Apples

How Mr. Yakamoto Saved Face

Mr. When's Chicken 

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