[geeks] New Tech Schools: Digital Harbor in Baltimore

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 04:09:00AM -0400, der Mouse wrote:
> Teaching OpenOffice instead of teaching Excel and Word makes almsot no
> difference to me; I still believe they should be teaching word
> processing and spreadsheets rather than any particular instance of
> either.

Image this at an interview:

	Interviewer:	"Did you learn how to use Word in your class"?

	Candidate:	 "No, we used Open Office".

	Interviewer:	"Sorry, we want someone who knows Word".


When you start a company and hire people you can hire people for what
concepts they know, instead of what programs they've used. But most
of the world thinks the other way. :-(

It was rare in computers thirty years ago to hire people for specific
knowledge, now it is the norm.  

Geoff.

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