[plug] Oxymoron: Microsoft, innovation

[Bernd Felsche]

"Mark J Gaynor" <mark at mjg.id.au> writes:
>On 15/06/2006 at 9:44 PM Alex Nordstrom wrote:
>>Thursday, 15 June 2006 16:27, Mark J Gaynor wrote:

>The teaching environment is sometimes so far out of touch with the
>reality if industry. You learn to use the right tool for the job in
>school and as soon as you get into industry you are told that is
>not how we do it here.

Schools should be about education; not training. 

Focusing on training means that the person becomes useless very
quickly after graduation. Either that; or technology/business
stagnates.
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