Re: Good news - UK government officially adopts ODF

On 24 July 2014 06:51, Chris Bannister wrote:
> Instead of teaching document preparation by immediately opening a word
> processor, and then pointing out all the features, it should be taught
> in an OS independant, program independant way.
>
> Unfortunately, I think the educators are influenced by the business
> community - e.g. teach Word skills, Dreamweaver skills, etc. :(

Someone once told me that schools should teach the "industry [de
facto] standard".
I responded that if I had rote-learned only the "industry standard"
wordprocessor at high school, my WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS skills
would've been redundant 3 years after leaving school. And if I'd
rote-learned only the "industry standard" in primary school, my
WordStar skills would've been redundant. But thanks to learning
generic transferable skills I was comfortable with every wordprocessor
put in front of me. Although I still remember all the WordStar control
codes to this day. ^KD

Yuri

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