On Sat, 2005-06-25 at 07:40 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On Friday 24 Jun 2005 11:38 am, Philip Tellis wrote:
I take a german class for the joy of being in a beginner's class.
I'd disagree. Classes and courses are beneficial depeding on what kind of learning you want. I discovered attending guitar classes for six months doesn't even make you a tolerable guitar player.
The entire "computer class" mindset comes from stupid products. For example if I have to do search and replace in MSword there are standard was click here click there you're done. OTOH on just the GNU/Linux command line there are plenty of ways... Now everyone has his/her own favourite shortcut way (depending on how ugly the commands look).
If you want to learn specifics like Math, Languages etc the classes are good. But learning GNU/Linux is like learning to cook. Everyone does his own thing, as there is generally more than one way to solve problems and do tasks. You need to be able to think for that and nobody can teach you to think.
Classes would teach you the grammar and the syntax of things, it can't teach you how to write an essay. For that you need experience. In Matrix speak, to learn the rules classes are good; to learn how to "bend" the rules, you need to learn on your own.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
ah