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Story: MPs: Open source faces exclusion in schools

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Feet and Inches

"Teaching OpenSource IT in schools would be like teaching feet and inches rather than metric, totally valid to teach, but useless in the real world." Posted by: 333967 (Tuesday 28 November 2006, 1:03 PM)

Teaching an 8 year old how to use MS Office 2000 today is surely more like the Feet and Inches half of the analogy. By the time they go on to further education or the work place it will be 8-10 years out of date .. which is actually more like Leagues and Chains in the world of IT.

Maybe "333967" is still using MS Office, but there are a very large number of organisations out there who have cut over to Open Office; even more in Europe than here.

As I understand the exams, they are task oriented and have nothing to do with the interface of the tool at hand. Let's face it; with the massive variability between different versions of MS Word they couldn't be, now could they.

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