Re: Confusion about legality of Linux
Nate Bargmann said...
> * Sam Kuper <sam.kuper@uclmail.net> [2008 Dec 10 06:54 -0600]:
> > 2008/12/10 Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us>
> > My feeling is that she should have investigated whether this really
> > was a "disturbance" before intervening. It is not clear to me that the
> > action she took was "needed". Hence my comment.
>
> Like me you're probably not an authority figure, there fore our
> reaction would be quite different. Her training and mindset are that
> of authority figure and her actions as described were consistent with
> authority figures as I recall from my youth.
But she is, above all, an educator. That trumps authority, at least it
does in schools; after all, is the priority of a school to educate or to
discipline? And if educators these days are scared of the new, then
heaven help us.
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Cheers,
Marc
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