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> But not dumbing down - skilling up But, you cannot have Wall Street consolidated market winners if you do that! How dare you! I saw this first hand growing
by StandardFuture 5y ago
> But not dumbing down - skilling up
But, you cannot have Wall Street consolidated market winners if you do that! How dare you!
I saw this first hand growing up. The school system had a couple of programming courses a few years before I got into the high school, and then it got all new computers and magically reduced computer education to only a set of Microsoft Office courses offered.
Who needs programming? The school knew we would all only need Word and Excel at any "office job" we could possibly ever get ...
- salawat 5y agoSo much this. I was in that beautiful space where schools experimented with CNA and A+ cert programs that set me in the generalized basics of how to escape from proprietary stacks.