[geeks] New Tech Schools: Digital Harbor in Baltimore

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Brian Dunbar wrote:

>> If people learn (or are taught) to use their tools -well-, they can
>> produce easily-managed useful output with even tools as mediocre as
>> Microsoft Word.
>
> I'll buy that.  How long is a course needed to teach that level of
> proficiency in a word processor?

Well, first you have to start by teaching the difference between content
and formatting, which is where you lose the majority of people due to
severely retarded abstract thinking skills as a result of US government
de-education. :(

Once you get past that point, it'd take maybe a week or two to turn
someone into a complete expert on MS Word, WordPerfect, or even LaTeX.

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USA               )                             --Neil Peart, "Bravado"