Programming and Education Quotes

I’ve found a few gems in the rough on Slashdot.

I worked in education for years. The fundamental problem with computer science education is that it is being taught by computer scientists instead of educators. We are stuck learning from the people who learned from the people who made it up. None of these people ever learned to EFFECTIVELY IMPART INFORMATION. link

Knowing the content is only part of the requirements for an educator. The most important part is being able to motivate students to seek out more information once you’ve taught them as much as you know. Teach them to stand on the shoulders of giants and leap into the sky.

At this time, programmers can be split into real men or MSFT weenies: real men would go to Java in Server-world. Weenies would love GUI and goto VB.  link

Ouch! With a comment like that, how can I possibly get excited about VB?