On 12/21/08 18:33, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
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>
> Perhaps I'm just seeing in the XKCD cartoon what I want to see, but my
> experience with elementary through high school was that it did not
> stretch my mind. It was dull and boring.
I guess that's one benefit of private school...
> Those weekend and summer
> programming projects were a challenge and a chance to explore —
All I got to do during the summer (after a two week vacation) was
work in a hot warehouse.
> something that the schools I attended didn't offer much of – projects
> that were much more valuable for my future than the busy work that fills
> much of the day in the average school.
>
> (And, no, life doesn't just revolve around work and school sometimes
> introduces children to things they might not be exposed to otherwise.)
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