[geeks] New Tech Schools: Digital Harbor in Baltimore

[Joshua Boyd]

On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 10:40:03AM +0100, Mike Meredith wrote:

> At work, the academics frequently moan and groan at having to read the
> work of young students. However if you grab one on a good day (in a gap
> between marking) they can sometimes admit that their own writing at 18
> was pretty abysmal, and that today's youth with enough practise produce
> some reasonable writing. We don't often look at our own writing at age
> 18, and it can come as a nasty shock to see just how bad we used to be!

Or worse, a shock to realize that we aren't actually any better.