D in the ix magazine about "programming today"

Nick Sabalausky a at a.a
Wed Dec 30 10:13:07 PST 2009


"Sean Kelly" <sean at invisibleduck.org> wrote in message 
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> Intro courses in the sciences are often intended to weed out the people

There's a *lot* of things wrong with the way schools work. Deliberate 
"weeding out" is a clear red flag that a school cares more about their own 
statistics (graduation ratio, etc) than actual education: For any 
institution that claims to value education, trying to get someone to leave a 
class, *especially* an introductory class, is completely inexcusable(^1), 
and IMO should subject them to immediate revocation of their accreditation. 
But, of course, accreditation itself is completely screwed up too...

1: Imagine if you got a book out at a library, and the library decided you 
didn't understand it well enough and therefore tried to get you to return it 
early and then prohibited you from getting out any other books on the topic. 
It's the same fucking thing...except, with a school, you're paying them tens 
of thousands of dollars to be told what knowledge you can and can't pursue.

And yet somehow, people insist in referring to college as, not only 
"education" (which would be big enough of a joke), but "*higher* education". 
Completely pathetic! People who work for, or even willingly go along with, 
such a machine should be absolutely ashamed. 




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