17.2.11



Dijous, 17 de febrer

Jordi Llovet. "Ordinadors? No, gràcies"

La consellera d'Ensenyament, Irene Rigau, ha aixecat una enorme polseguera a causa de la decisió d'aturar, preventivament, la implantació d'ordinadors portàtils a les aules de primària i secundària del país. Aquesta implantació va ser una iniciativa del govern d'entesa, si no directament del conseller Maragall, el qual, possiblement, va quedar enlluernat per la disposició d'abast "estatal" dictada pel ministre del ram, seguint ell mateix una idea genial —com totes, impremeditada— del president del govern, José Luis Rodríguez, el qual, encara amb més alta possibilitat, va deixar-se ensibornar pel col.lectiu de pedagogs que governen arreu del país: sens dubte la generació de pedagogs més ineficaç i indocte que ha tingut Espanya als darrers setanta anys, i que estan, o han estat, a punt d'enviar l'educació de tota la pell de brau a la ruïna. Honorable consellera, moltes felicitats! Perseveri!

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10.1.11



Dilluns 10 de gener

Mark Twain: "Guía para viajeros inocentes"

 The innocents abroad/capítol IV

After prayers the Synagogue shortly took the semblance of a writing school. The like of that picture was never seen in a ship before. Behind the long dining tables on either side of the saloon, and scattered from one end to the other of the latter, some twenty or thirty gentlemen and ladies sat them down under the swaying lamps and for two or three hours wrote diligently in their journals.
Alas! that journals so voluminously begun should come to so lame and impotent a conclusion as most of them did! I doubt if there is a single pilgrim of all that host but can show a hundred fair pages of journal concerning the first twenty days' voyaging in the Quaker City, and I am morally certain that not ten of the party can show twenty pages of journal for the succeeding twenty thousand miles of voyaging! At certain periods it becomes the dearest ambition of a man to keep a faithful record of his performances in a book; and he dashes at this work with an enthusiasm that imposes on him the notion that keeping a journal is the veriest pastime in the world, and the pleasantest. But if he only lives twenty-one days, he will find out that only those rare natures that are made up of pluck, endurance, devotion to duty for duty's sake, and invincible determination may hope to venture upon so tremendous an enterprise as the keeping of a journal and not sustain a shameful defeat (...)

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