Re: STUDENTS GO AWAY!!!!!!!??????

[afn03257@freenet2.afn.org (Daniel P Hudson)]

dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) wrote:
><<I must say I am shocked. It was my understanding that you were a
>  well thought of and highly intelligent person, Mr. Dewar.>>

>Hmmm! interesting that what started out as not an entirely unreasonable
>post has to deteriorate into insults -- well one of the primary rules
>of the internet is not to let such attempts bother one :-)

Don't patronize me. This thread was one big insult to anyone who
is, has been, or ever will be a student, Mr. Dewar. The basic premise
is students should be banned form usenet because they are stupid
and serve no purpose in the original posters eyes. I call that slightly
unfriendly, myself.

If you find the truth insulting, I'm sorry. But from what I have read
in this thread, it started out as ALL STUDENTS go away and not
ALL CHEATERS go away. I find such statements very poorly thought
out and down right unintelligent. In fact, I find it rather Nazish
if you want to know the truth. It seems you were arguing for 
this point and that your reasons were that students ask inappropriate 
questions. This may not be so, but that is what the thread has
appeared to show. As well, what makes you think a new college student
taking an Ada class, has a clue what a search engine is? I know
my college CIS labs didn't tell me what such things were. In
fact, I had to experiment just to find out the labs permitted 
internet access, and figure out what types of access it supported.

Furthermore, you make the assumption that no student is learning from
the solutions people have posted on usenet. My last Psych class
didn't seem to agree with this broad assumption. In fact, research showed
that multiple forms of stimulant were te best way to learn something.
IE, hearing and reading it, or seeing and hearing it or whatever.
It also showed that reading something in a book and talking with
someone about that subject promoted greater learning than just 
reading or just talking. I may be wrong, but typing through usenet
and chat is the closest thing we have to talking to people on the net
wihtout buying some $150+ Netphone.