Post #2898446
2026-05-14 10:47 UTC
@meena@cathode.church
"I think that even if one could show that the introduction of the computer into schools actually effected an improvement, say for example in reading scores, even if one could show that, the question, "Why can't Johnny read?" must still be asked.
There is a very good reason that questions of that kind are uncomfortable. When we ask this question, we may discover that Johnny is hungry when he comes to school, or that Johnny comes from a milieu in which reading is irrelevant to concrete problems or survival on the street -- that is, there is no chance to read, it is a violent milieu, and so on."
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@gomli@piaille.fr 2026-05-14 10:48
@meena@cathode.church very happily surprised to read a computer science researcher/teacher who is not stuck in his bubble of privilege and who has a more global and social vision, thank you for sharing! "Now if it had not been for the computer, if the computer had not been invented, what would the banks have had to do? They might have had to decentralize, or they might have had to regionalize in some way. In other words, it might have been necessary to introduce a social invention, as opposed to the technical invention." Another sentence which sums up well the role of computer science and high-tech today for me