From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID, PLING_QUERY,SUBJ_ALL_CAPS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,53f1f03353d5ae00 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: afn03257@freenet2.afn.org (Daniel P Hudson) Subject: Re: STUDENTS GO AWAY!!!!!!!?????? Date: 1997/04/27 Message-ID: <5jufaq$r5l@huron.eel.ufl.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 237938834 References: <335bdd1b.5485893@news> <5js5i6$ac8@huron.eel.ufl.edu> NNTP-Posting-User: afn03257 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-04-27T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) wrote: >< 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.