Fishing License

[Charlie McVeigh]

On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 12:27 +0930, Tim wrote:

> 
> It, homework, is pointless anyway.  I work in electronics, I highly
> technical field.  I've never needed anything I was taught at high school
> beyond basic maths in the first couple years, and the same applies for
> most people that I know in a wide variety of jobs.  All those nightly
> hours of grief were a complete waste of my time.  If I knew then what I
> knew now, I would have coasted school.  I would have flatly refused to
> waste my time with pointless rubbish, insisted that they constrain
> themselves to teaching things that were genuinely useful, and flatly
> refused to co-operate with any punishments meted out.  Even when I
> worked in schools I realised it was a pointless place for most people.
> 

Better to stay silent and let people think you are ignorant than to open
your mouth and remove all doubt.

Charlie