Vita sine libris mors est

[norumbegan]

This infuriates me:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8540381/Laptops cost $850, whereas books cost $500-600? And then school districts wonder why they don't have enough money. Kids will lose their laptops, break them, download viruses, pour drinks all over them ... plus the school will have to pay for keeping software up to date. A good set of books,

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[roach2600]

I wish I'd never used a computer for math or science in high school.

So many math team things I did with writing programs to find the result instead of knowing the theory.

But how about spending the money on good teachers :)

There comes a point when computers are no longer useful tools, but hindrances. I have spent countless hours on formatting, wrestling with bugs, and trying to navigate through useless help folders when I could have written something in a fraction of the time, by hand.

Humane Interfaces are trying to fix these things... that's why they should get Macs :)

[norumbegan]

Yeah, I'm all for paying teachers more. Just as importantly, though, we need to have administrators who are more concerned about students' education than they are about paying lip service to the most recent trend. Damn politics.

[norumbegan]

Yeah ... I wonder how long it'll take before test results like that are published and school systems come to their senses.

A friend of burnalive's is a friend of mine :)