On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 nate at refried.org wrote: > <devil's advocate> > While that may all be true, isn't the point of school to teach kids > things that they'll _use_ once they get out of school? That's why my > high school (back in the day) used primarily Windows, MS Office, > WordPerfect, Pagemaker, Quark Xpress, etc. Why teach them an > application they an application that they'll probably never use? > </devil's advocate> <took the bait> Umm, functionally, the difference from one word processor & another is almost nil, these days. same with spreadsheets. look at cars - just because the headlight switch looks different, doesn't mean that you can learn to turn them on. </took the bait> the point of education should be to make students aware of what exists in the world. and let them decide which they find interesting, and they can make their own choices. "If you want to get laid, go to college, but if you want an education, go to the library." -Frank Zappa -- LINUX, because rebooting is for adding hardware! www.linuxsnob.com <-- a little linux humor, and a very little support.