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By that logic, we shouldn't teach chemistry or physics in schools either. I would have loved to have been exposed to some CS in school. For some reason, my oth

By that logic, we shouldn't teach chemistry or physics in schools either. I would have loved to have been exposed to some CS in school. For some reason, my otherwise rather privileged schooling didn't feature any computing, and nobody in my direct environment did any. Only after starting a Physics undergrad did I meet some proper hackers, and years onwards I still feel like I'm years behind on them.

jerf 17y ago
"By that logic, we shouldn't teach chemistry or physics in schools either." I'm pretty comfortable with that conclusion. Anti-teaching, the teaching of things that are actively misleading about the nature of the subject or even actively wrong, is a bad idea. It doesn't matter how much "prior art" it has. It doesn't matter how much we have to just fill time while the students are sitting there. It doesn't matter whether there isn't a "better choice", because nothing really is a better choice than anti-teaching. Anti-teaching is a bad idea. Besides, ask around. Ask your non-geek friends simple, basic physics questions. If you like, even ask if they took physics in high school. If the goal of physics is for students to pass a test in school, we're OK. If the goal of physics is to give the general public an understanding of simple, basic Newtonian physics... we already aren't teaching physics, we're just going through the motions. The "threat" you raise is already the situation we are in.