Re: [OT] Software Engineering at 14

[Markus Mottl <mottl@miss.wu-wien.ac.at>]

In comp.lang.functional raj <israelrt@optushome.com.au> wrote:
> On 12 May 2001 14:40:39 GMT, a.krennmair@aon.at (Andreas Krennmair)
> wrote:

>>raj <israelrt@optushome.com.au> wrote:
>>>  Remember, you are talking about the educational system of a country
>>>  that produced Joerg Haider , Kurt Waldheim and most (in)famously Adolf
>>>  Schicklgruber.
>>You are so stupid. You think because there are a few "bad" guys from this
>>country, every Austrian must be evil. 

> Where did I say that _any_Austrian is evil ?

You hadn't said so, but your statement clearly implies that you think it's
the fault of our educational system that there are politically doubtful
Austrians and that you agreed with the previous article, which stated
that it was a militaristic aspect of an educational system if pupils _can_
(they need not!) start to specialize in education at the age of 14. As if
this were any different from educational systems in other countries! Or
do you want to tell us that all Australian pupils get humanistic education
in history, arts and literature only until they are 18?

> I merely pointed out that Adolf  Schicklgruber , Waldheim, Haider and
> a few others with rather conservative politics were educated in Austria.

No, Haider, for example, had also studied in Harvard for some time. Does
this make Harvard the center of right-winged politicians? Haider's parents
were convinced Nazis so there is an easy explanation where his political
bias comes from. You don't need to bash the educational system of a
whole country, even more so if you obviously don't know much about it.

Regards,
Markus Mottl

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Markus Mottl, mottl@miss.wu-wien.ac.at, http://miss.wu-wien.ac.at/~mottl