??? 07/18/06 13:29 Read: times |
#120468 - Sadly, one can't tell the difference Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Well, Kai, you've chosen to take the high road, giving the poster the "benefit of the doubt" when they ask those questions, semester after semester, that reflect their homework assignments. Unfortunately, one can't guess whether it's an honest question or whether it's just another slacker.
I see the result of the "get it off the internet" education that many students get. The result is that we have a large percentage of our work force claiming to be educated as engineers, yet never having done a piece of original work, or even having had an original thought in their entire lives. It's bad enough that they can't read and comprehend a piece of technical literature, since they've never read a datasheet, but they can't write anything down such that you could understand it either. It's only from doing their own work that they learn such things. The young engineers I encounter from time to time are passable 'C' programmers, but most of them can't read and interpret a datasheet. They can't think up a solution to a complex problem, either. How are we helping the world by doing their work for them? It seems small and simple to us, as we've done the work and read the literature. We're condemning the world to a generation of totally incompetent, lazy, and ignorant workers in the field. Is that what we want? RE |