MIT fraud ?

[problems@gmail]

It seems that there's a new type of fraud spreading in academia,
caused by the political correctness of anti-elitism.

In the [previously very good] reference library I noticed this
new-book "...electrical engineering...", with plenty 'multi
cultural' cortoons, and some superficial formula and some
buzz-phrases related to electrical engineering.

Is this what education is going to be, under the leftists ?

Let me make an analogy:
As an anthopologist, you've learned the language of this
remote, isolated tribe, where you,ve been living for 3 years.
Now, your task is to take the chief's son, 'Wog', to the
white-man's place to teach him new stuff.

One of Wog's first observations that fascinates him is the
TV display of Vladimir Rubensteinowitski giving a concert
on his grand piano. Wog wants to be able to do that too.

"No problemo dude", you tell him. And after you've bought
him a ghetto-blaster and shown him how to hear the master
pianist, Wog believes that he's already half-way to masterly
performing himself.

Because you're a fraud, you don't tell him that he first needs:
* to inherit the right genes;
* to live in a conducive environment/family;
* to start before he's 5 years old,
* practicing scales 4 hours a day ...

========== Recently I downloaded, from MIT their public domain
Alloy - lightweight modelling language for software design.

Their first demo-example impresses by giving graphic as well as
textual output. And further progress through the tutorial uses
the same deception: only after investing much effort would the
reader/victim become aware that substantial theoretical background
which he lacks is necessary. From the 'alloy forum' I can read
that many of the futile participants lack the prerequisite
background knowledge and were misled into starting.

I'm guessing that similar PC motivated 'fraud' is common throughout
the current US educational system.

IMO such attitudes contributed to the 'sub-prime-crisis'.

== Chris Glur.

[Bob Dubery]

On Sep 28, 5:39 pm, problems@gmail wrote:

> Their first demo-example impresses by giving graphic as well as
> textual output.  And further progress through the tutorial uses
> the same deception: only after investing much effort would the
> reader/victim become aware that substantial theoretical background
> which he lacks is necessary.   From the 'alloy forum' I can read
> that many of the futile participants lack the prerequisite
> background knowledge and were misled into starting.
>
> I'm guessing that similar PC motivated 'fraud' is common throughout
> the current US educational system.

It's fraud if MIT are presenting this software as being all you need.
If they present it as a tool, and the downloaders make the assumption
that MIT are saying that this software will make you an expert then
the problem is stupidity - and not on the part of MIT.