[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]
“There arises many issues and setbacks with the aforementioned.
One of the primary reasons, being the IT teachers themselves having
no concept of how to use Linux or even being aware of it. There are
many issues from many different angles. We are very lucky in some
ways that we live in a world of fast broadband access where anyone
can download and install Linux for free. When I was in high school,
a 56k dial-up internet connection was a true privilege and there
was only one computer in the whole school that had internet access.
I?m probably still on that list to use that computer as the list
was always a mile long.“But all my 10 years Linux experience that I have today has all
been self-taught. I have put myself through free courses and done
plenty of tinkering, configuring and certainly my fair share of
breaking systems. And my wife yelling at me because I?ve broken the
computer once again! And that continues to this day. Why? Because
Linux offer endless learning capabilities. And despite being a 10
year Linux user, I am still learning things on Linux on a daily
basis and still intentionally break things to see how they work in
detail. In fact, I am currently experimenting with Arch Linux. A
very different experience from the usual mainstream Linux
distributions like Ubuntu and Fedora. But that is my point. There?s
endless possibilities of learning when it comes to Linux. And
perhaps that?s the problem when it comes to public schools and
teaching Linux. It is such a large scale eco-system with so many
different facets, where would one begin to teach. I see that as an
excuse for not teaching it. And not a valid reason. Because even
giving children a glimpse of Linux in their high school studies
will no doubt have a flow-on effect to further private studies and
courses.”