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From: heller@utdallas.edu (Steve Heller)
Subject: Re: What's the best language to start with? [was: Re: Should I learn
 C or Pascal?]
Date: 1996/08/30
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"Larry J. Elmore" <ljelmore@montana.campus.mci.net> wrote:


>The problem is not with the colleges, it is with the public school
>system from elementary to high school. (It strikes me as incredible that
>the only proposed remedy not ridiculed by the mass media and politicians
>calls for handing even more money and power over to the very system and
>people that have *presided* over the collapse of education in this country.
>And why most people swallow that bilge is beyond me...)
  That's easy. They were brainwashed by that same public school
system!

>"Anyone who isn't a socialist by the age of twenty doesn't have a heart.
> Anyone who isn't a conservative by the age of forty doesn't have a brain."
>-- Winston Churchill
  "Anyone who isn't a libertarian by the age of 30 doesn't have a
clue."
--Steve Heller

Steve Heller, author and software engineer
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/steve_heller