"The purpose of education should be to create an academic environment that is separate from the outside world. This kind of environment is ideal because it allows students to focus on important ideas without being held back by practical concerns."
Related:
- We want to create an environment
automatedly... - Pascal n.
An Algol-descended language designed by
Niklaus Wirth on the CDC 6600 around 1967-68 as an instructional
tool for elementary programming.
This language, designed primarily to keep students... - The purpose of education should be to provide students with a value system,
a standard, a set of ideas.not to prepare them for... - The following appeared in a letter to the editor of a local newspaper.
"Too much emphasis is placed on the development of... - ROG** writes
> ...who have no clue about reality. Nothing could compare with
> the beauty of the real world around us and you should work as hard
> at preserving the environment and making the world safe for our progeny as
> you do at hiding in your computer screens.
I bet you couldn't > read a story from alt.sex.bondage... - The following appeared in a newsletter about education policy.
'The average annual earnings of high school dropouts... - Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any
intellectual influences,
are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen... - Women dream of world peace, a safe environment, and eliminating hunger.
What do men dream of? Being stuck in an elevator with... - I fish not because I regard fishing as being terribly important,
but because I suspect that so many of the other concerns...
From the same category:
- To remain vigorous,
any academic field needs to be led by truly independent... - Moderation in all things' is ill-considered advice.
Rather, one should say, 'Moderation in most things... - Colleges and universities should offer more courses on popular music,
film, advertising, and television because contemporary... - Over the past century,
the most significant contribution of technology has... - The function of science is to reassure; the purpose of art is to upset.
Therein lies the value of each...
