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- Subject: (Fwd: *C&CD*) RE: (Fwd: *C&CD*) What I was NOT complaining about/ (Required Courses) (18) (16)
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- Entry: 16
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 19:26:22 -0600
- From: Gallus <galbri@bernoulli.bethel.edu>
- Subject: RE: (Fwd: *C&CD*) What I was NOT complaining about/ (Required Courses) (18) (16)
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- Reply-to: Computers & Composition Digest (R. Royar) <R0MILL01@ULKYVX.BITNET>
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- > Honestly, I wasn't complaining.
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- I apologize for the miscommunication.
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- As a second year computer science student who happens to be very concerned with
- this country's future, I see todays college students learning nary as much as those
- of 15 to 20 years ago. This is not just a college phenomona, as elementary,
- middle and highschools are saddly lacking in the funds and abilities to
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- thoroughly educate the children of today. By allowing students to be taught
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- in over-crowded, under managed schools, they nolonger are learning even
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- the core curriculim; people are graduating high school unable to read and write.
- The point that I am trying to make is that this is a sad cycle that ends in the
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- colleges. By not teaching students about the world in the lower educational
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- levels, they nolonger have an active interest in doing so when they finally have
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- the chance. Because of this, and the fact that colleges are forced to meet the
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- needs (wants) of their students, as this is how bills are paid, the schools are
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- forced to "compromise" the curriculim to meet the wants of the students; Training
- for a job. This is something that I see not only in my school, but in the fact that
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- so-called "tech" schools are taking a bigger part of the educational "Pie."
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- Students want only what they need to get a decent paying job. This is why
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- I see the need for general education courses to be a well rounded, broad
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- view of what these students need to learn, or at least think about. No school
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- is perfect, but they are doing their best.
- As a person who has asperations of teaching at the college level, I am a bit
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- concerned that the required amount of general education classes are
- becoming less and less. If this keeps up, the country will be filled with no
- liberal arts schools, and thousands of "tech" schools; I want my children to
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- attend a school that will educate them in more than just a technical fashion.
- After all, isn't college the place where we are supposed to "find ouselves"?
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- Young, yet concerned-
- Brian K. Gallus
- (galbri@bethel.edu)
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- P.S. Snappy quotation yes, but disclaimer?
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