[Lias] netNOW NZ - Getting to the source

[ken_yap at users.sourceforge.net]

>    Is the aim to teach children how to use software, or how to
>    use one brand of software? Let me use this analogy. How many
>    types of car can you drive? Whether they're diesel, petrol,
>    manual, automatic, left or right-hand drive, a couple of
>    seconds familiarity and you're away. Software's the same.

I tried this argument on a recalcitrant teacher at one school. The
software in question was OpenOffice. Later on I realised that his
well-founded fear is that his pupils would pick it up faster than he
can.