Re: Should schools declare a platform?

Ronald A. Miller (ronalan@umich.edu)
Sat, 4 Nov 1995 00:15:39 EST

>>I believe that we do our students a great disservice by cutting their
>>teeth on equipment which still quite isolates itself from the rest of the
>>industrial world. A disservice because, though the Apple can now use
>>either the Windows/Dos operating system, the Apple is still foreign
>>enough that one has to stop an think about *how* this or that works.
>>
>>I vote that educators stay mainstream and stop making excuses for their
>>lack of understanding the industrial markets where most of their
>>graduates end up.

Sometimes I'm glad we don't live in an absolute democracy;)

My take on this is, as educators (yes i include all tech people in K-higher
ed.in this mix) we spend far too much time on asking the wrong questions.
It ain't platform! Now, any thoughts on what the real question's are?

-Ron

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