michael_nielsen

Computer science education should remain as it is today: boring, outdated, over-serious and focused on creating students that pass test metrics (and that rather than software which does so..)

My remark was meant as a comment on how many classrooms kill interest. Certainly true of my English classes, which tried valiantly to kill my love of reading. In general, I'm in favour of less "education", but am in favour of enabling enthusiastic children to do projects.

I'm pretty sure @micsolana had the latter model in mind. Done well, I'm sure it'd be terrific for many children (though perhaps not for some).

This is partly what makes education debates tricky: my English teachers (in several cases with me, really they were writers largely unwillingly employed, out of necessity only) opened so many doors to understanding that I would likely never otherwise have found..

Conversely my experiences at lobbying my school to bolster its CS side / offer anything in this regard suggest to me that there is a lot of potential to unlock and that ideas / attempts should be encouraged

Yeah I would describe my high school experience as having had full responsibility for my own learning, with a big supplemental boost from the staff, and the things I was required to take and mightn’t have were largely eye-opening (language, writing, art history)

On the other hand I tried everything I could to get better technical education on offer while I was there. Truly hard to do in Hawaii, esp then. Things are much better at the school now. But my high school probably was weird. A high fraction of the teachers had PhDs..