What Scala?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Georg Wrede" <georg.wrede at iki.fi> wrote in message 
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> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> "bearophile" <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote in message 
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>>> Nick Sabalausky:
>>>> Sounds like most of the CS classes I had in college.<
>>> You have to form a little group with few other of the students most 
>>> interested in those classes (or you can even act alone), and ask the 
>>> teacher to change the style or way, explaining him/her to slow down or 
>>> speed up topics. Most teachers if asked kindly are willing to change 
>>> their speed, especially if there's enough time to slow down.
>>>
>>
>> Heh, it's much too late for that. Been out of college for awhile now ;)
>>
>> Besides, it probably wouldn't have worked anyway. Most of my classmates 
>> had practically zero experience outside of class, so they probably did 
>> need that (and don't get me started on the complete ineptitude of the CS 
>> *grad* students I met. Hell, even some of the cs phd profs didn't know 
>> what the hell they were doing, I have stories about all of that...), 
>> whereas I've been coding practically since I learned to read. If there's 
>> one thing my school experience taught me, it's that teachers are only 
>> interested in focusing on the low-to-mid-range students. The advanced 
>> ones are only there to shell out tuition money and act as cheap tutors. 
>> They would be far better off saving their time and money by not even 
>> going, but they almost *have* to go anyway just because the rest of 
>> society (and HR drones in particular) are brainwashed into thinking that 
>> there's a direct correlation between academics and competence (if 
>> anything, it's slightly inverse - one of the smartest people I know had 
>> so much trouble with school he ended up a high school dropout).
>
> Sigh. Amen to that. :-(
> Been there, both as a university teacher, a student, and a job seeker.
> It's simply depressing. And I don't even want to get started on this.

I could probably fill a book with all of the various problems I observed 
with the "education" system. Maybe I should write one...But I'd probably 
just give myself a heart attack just thinking about all of it (and I have 
good blood pressure!).