What Brian Kernighan thinks about education

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Canadian computer scientist teaching at Princeton; spent three decades at Bell Labs in the group that produced Unix, C and C++, and co-authored The C Programming Language and The Practice of Programming.

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1. 17 Sept 2007

   Our readingClassrooms need simple technology that works more than new technology.

   Their wordsAs I thought about the panel, it became clear that what we really need is not new technology, but simple old-fashioned technology that works.

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