Alexander Nicholi
what do you know about computing?
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We don't need no thought control... or so the chorus goes.
What are your thoughts on education, be it primary, secondary, or post-secondary? Do you think it's useful, or necessary? What would you change about the education system in your country? How much education do you think is enough education? Any other points you want to cover?
I think that compulsory education in the US is at best meaningless droll, and at worse torture for the non-average. Of course I'm biased, still being in high school, but it doesn't mean I feel my opinions on matters any less so. I am far above average academically and always have been, since kindergarten, and schools on the east coast here have made it all make and manner of frustration for their lack of resources geared towards those who aren't average. Their system only works well with those who hit in the middle. In the midwest I attended a military high school where the power curve was a lot higher, but it still felt like more or less meaningless posturing nonsense. Like, besides the grade, what point is there to this?
While thought control isn't something I'd touch on as much with the wealthier schools, in the poorer schools there is evidently a herd mentality both in on-topic discussions and off-topic "trendy" things. It's literally all about what everyone else is doing, and what everyone else is wearing, and... what everyone else is reading. There is no individuality in any sense in the schools I've attended, and it makes it really difficult for me because of how out-of-the-ordinary I am. I don't fit the mold. I don't care what others are doing. I do my own thing because I think it's the most reasonable course of action, not because twelve hundred other drones are doing it so it must make sense. It's just a mess for me, really. What angers me more than anything though, is the education system masquerading in the name of knowledge and thinking with this behaviour being across-the-board. It's a boldfaced lie.
I don't think college will be as bad as I'm a paying customer (heh) but of course there will be holes too. I've heard all too much about Java being bought into being the gold standard for computer science when it is one of the slowest, ugliest, most clunky programming languages around. Yeah. :\
What are your thoughts on education, be it primary, secondary, or post-secondary? Do you think it's useful, or necessary? What would you change about the education system in your country? How much education do you think is enough education? Any other points you want to cover?
I think that compulsory education in the US is at best meaningless droll, and at worse torture for the non-average. Of course I'm biased, still being in high school, but it doesn't mean I feel my opinions on matters any less so. I am far above average academically and always have been, since kindergarten, and schools on the east coast here have made it all make and manner of frustration for their lack of resources geared towards those who aren't average. Their system only works well with those who hit in the middle. In the midwest I attended a military high school where the power curve was a lot higher, but it still felt like more or less meaningless posturing nonsense. Like, besides the grade, what point is there to this?
While thought control isn't something I'd touch on as much with the wealthier schools, in the poorer schools there is evidently a herd mentality both in on-topic discussions and off-topic "trendy" things. It's literally all about what everyone else is doing, and what everyone else is wearing, and... what everyone else is reading. There is no individuality in any sense in the schools I've attended, and it makes it really difficult for me because of how out-of-the-ordinary I am. I don't fit the mold. I don't care what others are doing. I do my own thing because I think it's the most reasonable course of action, not because twelve hundred other drones are doing it so it must make sense. It's just a mess for me, really. What angers me more than anything though, is the education system masquerading in the name of knowledge and thinking with this behaviour being across-the-board. It's a boldfaced lie.
I don't think college will be as bad as I'm a paying customer (heh) but of course there will be holes too. I've heard all too much about Java being bought into being the gold standard for computer science when it is one of the slowest, ugliest, most clunky programming languages around. Yeah. :\