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Comment Re:a better question (Score 1) 706

i'd much rather see a system that kept an account for all children that wasn't paid until graduation, and if you ever received a D the money in the account was cut by half. if you ever received an F the money was wiped out, and if you ever got a C, you wouldn't receive any new money for that grading cycle.

That is great if your trying to motivate adults.

as the article points out. children do best with immediate feedback on concrete actions

Promising them something several years from now for a behavior they cannot figure out how to significantly change is the least effective.

Comment Re:Workflow (Score 3, Insightful) 511

The "miracle" of word processors has brought us a general decline in the quality of output. Secretaries had extensive knowledge in how to professionally layout and format a document. Now that nay numb nuts with word can produce a doc and think it looks good. As a CAD guy, I can tell you the same thing is happening in engineering to a greater degree. Engineers are coming out of school with only a cursory introduction to drafting and they think they can produce quality professional looking sheets. Unfortunately engineering drawings depend more on the layout and format to make them clear and engineers generally don't have a clue. They know what information needs to be on there and they put it on. It's all clear to them, but if you read it cold you'll get lost in the chaos. Who needs secretaries? a whole lot more people than realize it.

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