From: Billy Brown (bbrown@transcient.com)
Date: Mon Feb 21 2000 - 13:14:38 MST
Spike Jones wrote:
> How do we teach children born in the 90s values
> appropriate to their times?
<snip>
> My grandfather told me the two very most important skills for
> any young man to have are: auto mechanics and self defense.
> OK. One has been marginally useful, mostly as a hobby,
> the other totally useless. Grandpa never saw a computer,
> so I would not expect him to understand the usefulness of
> learning to use one, however:
>
> How can we avoid passing on similarly inappropriate values
> to the next generation?
Conceptually that's easy: you don't teach them skills at all, you teach them
the meta-skills one uses to determine what is and is not important. In
practice this is often difficult, both because most people aren't very good
at these meta-skills and because they are more difficult to teach than
something like auto repair.
Billy Brown
bbrown@transcient.com
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