Schwarzenegger: "The text books are outdated ...",

Brown Sauce · Post by **Brown Sauce** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 3:57 pm

[web]https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8090450.stm[/web]

I wonder has anyone really thought this through ?

"No",

thought not.

Post by **Skylace** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 4:19 pm

While I am the first to say there is a need for technology in the classroom and that books are not in our future, this isn't the way to go about it. However, I do think that with some thought and effort it can be done. But not just "Hey, let's do this."

I for one have thought the idea of "kindle-based" education would be wonderful. But that is in the future and definitely not something that will just happen. They are proposing a very small band-aid solution to an extremely large problem. Education always gets the short end of the stick and the only people we are short changing is ourselves.

Post by **faceless** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 4:43 pm

I like the idea from an environmental position, but I definitely absorb a lot more information from a book than I do from a webpage. Although, with those new book-readers I think that this will change and improve.

Brown Sauce · Post by **Brown Sauce** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 4:53 pm

ok, here's one,

for the sciences it may be ok. But once the door is opened, what about history? How easy is it to edit the master copy?

With print there are millions, or at least tens of thousands of instances of the master copy. Online this doesn't have to be the case. And with the readers, no one has to ever print anything out.

Post by **faceless** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 6:29 pm

I saw this a couple of days ago on another site and thought it had to be nothing more than a pathetic piss take by someone with too much time on their hands - but it's a genuine pathetic piss-take by someone with too much time on their hands.

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/us/29arnold.html

pirtybirdy · Post by **pirtybirdy** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 2:32 am

Good for Arnold. His state is a mess, and he has a lot of shitty liberal twatholes to contend with. The guy who created and submitted this bill has been an unprofessional dickhead towards the governor, so I guess Arnie figures this is the only way this guy knows how to communicate. lol!

Post by **faceless** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 2:41 am

If you want your politicians to be honest, do you not expect them to speak out about how the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are complete lies rather than employing writers to make him sound cool to certain minority groups on piffling issues?

luke · Post by **luke** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 4:20 pm

whooah, who said anything about honesty? liberals and their honesty, facts and truth, that's whats causing americas downfall! whilst you liberals are all worried about torture, wars and the failings of capitalism and massive inequality, there's gay 'people' getting married and stem cells being researched! [/republican]

major.tom · Post by **major.tom** » Sun Nov 01, 2009 3:50 am

luke wrote:whooah, who said anything about honesty? liberals and their honesty, facts and truth, that's whats causing americas downfall! whilst you liberals are all worried about torture, wars and the failings of capitalism and massive inequality, there's gay 'people' getting married and stem cells being researched! [/republican]

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