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Subject:	Re: Rush: "Lego is a Tool for 4 year olds"
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.general
Date:	Wed, 2 Feb 2000 00:09:16 GMT
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Scott E. Sanburn wrote: > Rich Manzo wrote: > > > > In lugnet.general, Chris Busse writes: > > > In Colorado they are testing using a LEGO building contest for > > > college admission: > > > > > > http://www.denverpost.com/news/news0201c.htm > > > > > > Originally found on slashdot: > > > > > > http://slashdot.org/articles/00/02/01/1135226.shtml (major snip) > Going to college has NOTHING to do with "initiative, > leadership and an ability to work in groups ". Working in the real > world deals with these issues, and college is about as removed from > reality as anything. This is true, for the most part, and for most majors. However, for CompSci, at least at my alma mater, there was a "team programming" course where your grade depended on the output of your team. I think the architectural students also might have had some team projects, but I'm not sure. No argument about the statement that college is far removed from reality. -- Susan Hoover Houston, TX

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		Re: Rush: "Lego is a Tool for 4 year olds"
(...) The statement that initiative and leadership, etc., have nothing to do with going to college is dead wrong. It's not exhibited in college as often as it should be, and that's part of the reason for the search for better processes. People who (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.general)

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		Re: Rush: "Lego is a Tool for 4 year olds"
< cross posted to off-topic-debate > Rich, (...) Hmm... Being a Rush fan and a definite AFOL, I can see the logic of his thinking. Testing people on the ability to build anything, regardless of how good they might be, is a strange way of testing (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.general)

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