Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on November 10, 2003 12:57 AM
A school is not the place where proprietary software vendors should be allowed to dominate. A school is meant as a place of education, not indoctrination. You could think of it this way. When you take Drivers Education in your local school its not "Ford Drivers Education" or "Toyota Drivers Education", its simply "Drivers Education" with the emphasis on teaching you how to drive all the different types of cars you may end up driving in the real world. On the other hand when you take "Word Processing" or "Spreadsheets" in most schools in the US, you are going to be learning about Microsoft Office, Word, and Excel. The argument that most of the business world uses those products does not justify teaching those products to the exclusion of all others no more than "Drivers Training" should concentrate on whatever is the biggest selling car model in the US or because the manufacturer decided to "donate" cars to the training program we place our teaching emphasis on that brand only. Its inherently wrong and needs to be corrected.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on November 10, 2003 12:57 AMYou could think of it this way. When you take Drivers Education in your local school its not "Ford Drivers Education" or "Toyota Drivers Education", its simply "Drivers Education" with the emphasis on teaching you how to drive all the different types of cars you may end up driving in the real world.
On the other hand when you take "Word Processing" or "Spreadsheets" in most schools in the US, you are going to be learning about Microsoft Office, Word, and Excel. The argument that most of the business world uses those products does not justify teaching those products to the exclusion of all others no more than "Drivers Training" should concentrate on whatever is the biggest selling car model in the US or because the manufacturer decided to "donate" cars to the training program we place our teaching emphasis on that brand only. Its inherently wrong and needs to be corrected.
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