...according to this report.  I laughed and was going to move on, until I started reading the comments.  They just roasted this guy... Hilarious!

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/willardfoxton2/100011290/the-government-wants-to-teach-all-children-how-to-code-heres-why-its-a-stupid-idea/


My favorite:  http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/willardfoxton2/100011290/the-government-wants-to-teach-all-children-how-to-code-heres-why-its-a-stupid-idea/#comment-1101297035

QuoteOne other thing...I could easily do your job tomorrow. It would take you years to be able to do mine.

The guy's a total douche but if he's trying to say that "all kids" shouldn't be taught ANYTHING until all kids are fully proficient at basic reading writing and arithmetic skills, then he is right about that.  But that applies every bit as much to environmental awareness, racist sensitivity and a hundred other liberal indoctrination crusades as it does to computer programming.

Seems that every other day I hear about another ten-billion dollar program to try and make these little mouth-breathers computer literate, before they're any other kind of literate.  It's nothing but a super-expensive way to make all this guy's insane and idiotic stereotypes about tech-savvy morons eventually come true.

And even if today's schools could magically teach kids something about computers when they're eight years old, it would all be hopelessly obsolete before they entered the workforce.  Being in a technical career doesn't mean being (as this guy assumes) some kind of freak who's more comfortable with machines than humans; it means being able to LEARN new things every day.  And trying to program kids to program computers is just one more way that today's "education" system systematically eradicates that skill in young people.

Quote from: kopema on October 29, 2013, 02:20:26 PM
The guy's a total douche but if he's trying to say that "all kids" shouldn't be taught ANYTHING until all kids are fully proficient at basic reading writing and arithmetic skills, then he is right about that.  But that applies every bit as much to environmental awareness, racist sensitivity and a hundred other liberal indoctrination crusades as it does to computer programming.

Ha, totally...

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Seems that every other day I hear about another ten-billion dollar program to try and make these little mouth-breathers computer literate, before they're any other kind of literate.  It's nothing but a super-expensive way to make all this guy's insane and idiotic stereotypes about tech-savvy morons eventually come true.

hahaha

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And even if today's schools could magically teach kids something about computers when they're eight years old, it would all be hopelessly obsolete before they entered the workforce.  Being in a technical career doesn't mean being (as this guy assumes) some kind of freak who's more comfortable with machines than humans; it means being able to LEARN new things every day.  And trying to program kids to program computers is just one more way that today's "education" system systematically eradicates that skill in young people.

Well said!  Yeah, kids need the basics first.  It's to bad that with billions and billions spend on salaries and pirks for school administrators and corruption, kids can barely read.

Quote from: taxed on October 29, 2013, 02:29:01 PM
Ha, totally...
hahaha

Well said!  Yeah, kids need the basics first.  It's to bad that with billions and billions spend on salaries and pirks for school administrators and corruption, kids can barely read.

Kids can barely get out of bed.   

"Fit a U-bend?" What the hell is that, plumbing? Hey, BERT? Definition, please!