Comment Re:Blame Public Education (not funding) (Score 1) 1382
I think americans focus on blaming someone else for their (our) problems. It is always someone else's fault. We like to blame a political party, schools, parents, goverment programs, sports, hollywood, or whatever.
No one ever says, "what can I do" or "am I doing my part" or "how can I help fix this". No, blame has to get placed somewhere and we expect someone else to pick up the slack and make the problem go away.
Everyone here can make a big difference just by being a technical role model, changing the TV channel to Discovery/TLC from disney/cartoon programming, helping out at the schools, taking continuing education classes, leaving tech mags around the house.
As a whole, we are good at evangelizing Linux, the same approach needs to be done to science and technology as a whole. It cant be pushy, leading by example is a key part.
No one ever says, "what can I do" or "am I doing my part" or "how can I help fix this". No, blame has to get placed somewhere and we expect someone else to pick up the slack and make the problem go away.
Everyone here can make a big difference just by being a technical role model, changing the TV channel to Discovery/TLC from disney/cartoon programming, helping out at the schools, taking continuing education classes, leaving tech mags around the house.
As a whole, we are good at evangelizing Linux, the same approach needs to be done to science and technology as a whole. It cant be pushy, leading by example is a key part.
