Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > comp.lang.c > #105880

Re: Gotta keep up with the times (Was: Program to find consecutive integers)

Show all headers | View raw

In article <d21f9712-bba3-4c0f-bbaf-5b1cd84fb95d@googlegroups.com>,
Malcolm McLean  <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> wrote:
>On Sunday, March 12, 2017 at 3:53:22 PM UTC, Kenny McCormack wrote:
>> 
>> I think something like half of all teaching effort in US colleges these
>> days is "remedial" - i.e., teaching people things they should have learned
>> in high school (or earlier).
>> 
>That's true in the UK too.
>
>A lot of universities are quietly and competently teaching youngsters
>things they should have learnt at school and didn't. It's something they
>have to keep quiet about, and university education is far more expensive
>that state school education, but the universities are selective, so the
>bottom 50%, including the long tail of disruptive elements, are
>eliminated. Then 18-21 year olds are in some ways easier to teach than
>younger children because discipline problems present if different, more
>manageable forms. Then, though it's dreadful to have to say this, an
>assault on a member of university staff by a student is in the eyes of the
>police an adult-to-adult matter, and dealt with as such. Consequently such
>actions by students are rare.

Interesting stuff.  I'm assuming:

    1) That by 'present if different', you meant 'present in different'.

    2) That the UK has evolved the same "everybody goes to college" mindset
	as the US.  Such that everybody assumes that if you don't go to
	college, the only job you'll ever have is flipping burgers.  I
	imagine that it won't be that much longer until you can't get a job
	flipping burgers w/o a college degree.

(Moving onto a new, but related topic)
Paul Graham's thesis is that all education below college level is just
"warehousing" - i.e., day care.

-- 
The randomly chosen signature file that would have appeared here is more than 4
lines long.  As such, it violates one or more Usenet RFCs.  In order to remain
in compliance with said RFCs, the actual sig can be found at the following URL:
	http://user.xmission.com/~gazelle/Sigs/God

Back to comp.lang.c | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

Program to find consecutive integers insane_goat <nobody@nothing.net> - 2017-03-10 04:21 +0000
  Re: Program to find consecutive integers Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2017-03-09 22:26 -0700
    Re: Program to find consecutive integers insane_goat <nobody@nothing.net> - 2017-03-10 06:48 +0000
      Re: Program to find consecutive integers Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> - 2017-03-10 08:18 +0000
        Re: Program to find consecutive integers insane_goat <nobody@nothing.net> - 2017-03-10 08:48 +0000
          Re: Program to find consecutive integers Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-03-10 10:38 +0000
            Re: Program to find consecutive integers insane_goat <nobody@nothing.net> - 2017-03-12 13:15 +0000
              Re: Program to find consecutive integers Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-03-12 13:29 +0000
            Re: Program to find consecutive integers raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2017-03-14 07:49 +0000
          Re: Program to find consecutive integers Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2017-03-10 05:12 -0800
        Re: Program to find consecutive integers jameskuyper@verizon.net - 2017-03-10 07:16 -0800
          Re: Program to find consecutive integers Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> - 2017-03-10 19:20 +0000
            Re: Program to find consecutive integers James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2017-03-10 15:21 -0500
              Re: Program to find consecutive integers Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> - 2017-03-10 20:36 +0000
              Re: Program to find consecutive integers insane_goat <nobody@nothing.net> - 2017-03-12 13:19 +0000
                Gotta keep up with the times (Was: Program to find consecutive integers) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2017-03-12 13:25 +0000
                Re: Gotta keep up with the times (Was: Program to find consecutive integers) Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2017-03-12 08:11 -0700
                Re: Gotta keep up with the times (Was: Program to find consecutive integers) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2017-03-12 15:53 +0000
                Re: Gotta keep up with the times (Was: Program to find consecutive integers) Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2017-03-12 10:50 -0700
                Re: Gotta keep up with the times (Was: Program to find consecutive integers) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2017-03-12 18:25 +0000
                Re: Gotta keep up with the times (Was: Program to find consecutive integers) Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2017-03-12 16:20 -0700
                Re: Gotta keep up with the times gordonb.g2pqz@burditt.org (Gordon Burditt) - 2017-03-14 01:09 -0500
                Re: Gotta keep up with the times raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2017-03-14 07:43 +0000
                Re: Program to find consecutive integers "James R. Kuyper" <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2017-03-12 10:28 -0400
            Re: Program to find consecutive integers Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2017-03-11 07:42 +0000
      Re: Program to find consecutive integers jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2017-03-10 10:21 +0000
        Re: Program to find consecutive integers Nathan Wagner <nw@hydaspes.if.org> - 2017-03-10 22:07 +0000
          Re: Program to find consecutive integers Nathan Wagner <nw@hydaspes.if.org> - 2017-03-10 22:20 +0000
          Re: Program to find consecutive integers jr <creature.eternal@gmail.com> - 2017-03-10 23:49 -0800
        Re: Program to find consecutive integers jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2017-03-11 23:38 +0000
          Re: Program to find consecutive integers Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2017-04-16 21:18 -0700

csiph-web