EdinburghTVFest - Excerpts from 2011's MacTaggart Lecture by Eric Schmidt

[JLishere]

Why did you take down the full lecture?

[ashstreetltd]

Mr Schmidt has many pertinent points relating to education. Though if they can't organise education are they forward thinking enough to listen and apply the changes necessary.

[phantomhacker90]

he does have a point programming isn't taught in high school but in bbc micro day it was being taught and software is taught

[MyArbitrary]

@phantomhacker90 Since when was 'BBC Micro Day', education?

[phantomhacker90]

@MyArbitrary they used it in schools !!!!!

[MyArbitrary]

@phantomhacker90 Operative word 'used', past tense.

[MyArbitrary]

His speech on the UK's education system is so true, we're not really given a fair chance to learn Computer Science in education unless we take our own time to use the Internet and research information on it - even sixth form colleges in the UK really don't explain computer science too well, as you only study two or three units which relate to programming in Visual Basic, never anything beyond that and you're lucky if you can even do a Visual Basic unit because that's not a mandatory unit.