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Tuesday, May 10, 2005
That is TOO Funny
I'm watching FoxNews (go figure) and they're talking about the hacker attack that breached Cisco Systems defenses and accessed government computers. The investigation is currently centered around a sixteen-year-old Swede that goes by the name 'STAKKATO'.
When Linda Vester expressed surprise that the hacker might be a teenager, the gentleman she was interviewing said something quite funny. He said that kids are a lot smarter, and they have instant access to information that it took us years and years to accumulate. Then... here's the good part... he said, "and now we're homeschooling kids, and they're just pushing themselves, to see how far they can go and how much they can learn. We just can't keep up." (That's a paraphrase... sorry... )
I'm not sure if I should be happy or sad about that. I mean, I'm sad because it sounds like this guy is blaming homeschoolers for hacking problems (uh... no... ). But... on the other hand, I'm pretty darn happy that people are starting to realize that homeschool kids aren't (in most cases) getting gypped in their learning. Maybe, just maybe, they're getting an even better education.
In the one year we homeschooled, the boys learned a lot. Maybe their composition skills needed a little work, but besides that, they impressed me. They not only learned what they were supposed to learn (according to someone in an office somewhere), but they learned more. They learned how to communicate with adults. They learned how to find things out on their own. (One of my pet phrases last year when asked a question was "Google is your friend.") They learned that there is far more to learn about a subject than you find in your textbook (and that some-read most- textbooks unfortunately have some form of bias and don't just put forth facts without commentary). Did they learn to be hackers? Well, no... but T2 now knows more about WORD than anyone else in this house.
Sorry... just found that humorous...
When Linda Vester expressed surprise that the hacker might be a teenager, the gentleman she was interviewing said something quite funny. He said that kids are a lot smarter, and they have instant access to information that it took us years and years to accumulate. Then... here's the good part... he said, "and now we're homeschooling kids, and they're just pushing themselves, to see how far they can go and how much they can learn. We just can't keep up." (That's a paraphrase... sorry... )
I'm not sure if I should be happy or sad about that. I mean, I'm sad because it sounds like this guy is blaming homeschoolers for hacking problems (uh... no... ). But... on the other hand, I'm pretty darn happy that people are starting to realize that homeschool kids aren't (in most cases) getting gypped in their learning. Maybe, just maybe, they're getting an even better education.
In the one year we homeschooled, the boys learned a lot. Maybe their composition skills needed a little work, but besides that, they impressed me. They not only learned what they were supposed to learn (according to someone in an office somewhere), but they learned more. They learned how to communicate with adults. They learned how to find things out on their own. (One of my pet phrases last year when asked a question was "Google is your friend.") They learned that there is far more to learn about a subject than you find in your textbook (and that some-read most- textbooks unfortunately have some form of bias and don't just put forth facts without commentary). Did they learn to be hackers? Well, no... but T2 now knows more about WORD than anyone else in this house.
Sorry... just found that humorous...
