Cobol - Re: Computer Science Education: Where Are the Software Engineers of Tomorrow?

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Re: Computer Science Education: Where Are the Software Engineers of Tomorrow?

Howard Brazee

2008-01-09, 6:56 pm

On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 04:33:21 -0800 (PST), Alistair
<alistair@ld50macca.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>I have often discussed whether or not education is being dumbed down.
>Since I graduated I am sure that the quality of advanced secondary
>education has been dumbed down. However, the maths that I learned at
>school (SMP maths) had been dumbed down from the previous generetions'
>Trad maths. I was not even taught grammar at school (or even grammer,
>whatever).

With changes in emphasis, people always complain about such dumbing
down in particular fields.

Trivia used to refer to the trivium, which were the "easy" Liberal
Arts, (grammar, rhetoric, and logic).

The hard (graduate) liberal arts were arithmetic, geometry, music, and
astronomy.

Times change.

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