[Info-vax] Updated HPE/VSI OpenVMS V8.4-2L1 Marketing Brochures

[Simon Clubley]

On 2016-10-04, IanD <iloveopenvms at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday, October 2, 2016 at 6:01:15 AM UTC+11, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> 
>> If teaching today is only about assembling existing bricks into higher
>> level structures and not about making the bricks themselves, then who
>> teaches the people needed to design and build the next generation
>> of bricks ?
>> 
>
> Don't shoot the messenger please!
>

Oh, I'm not and I've started to see the same things as well.

The above was utter frustration at the short sighted mindset of
the education establishment and the long term damage they are
causing with such an approach.

> I'm just relaying what the education sector is doing, I'm not
> endorsing it or saying I agree with it. I was pointing out the
> mentality of the sector and by comparison showing were VMS I think is
> relative to that model
>
> The education sector stopped producing thinking and inquiring minds long ago
>
> They pump out graduates who are productive, not innovative. They
> have succumbed to market forces pushed by the agenda of big business,
> who want productive people not so much thinkers unless that thinking
> can be monetised
>

In the old days, we used to call those technical schools or something
similar, not universities.

Simon.

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