Friday, July 2, 2010

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fear of God as an educational goal

Fefe has kindly pointed out that in the Bavarian Constitution, the fear of God as the first target the (public?) Education is committed. But not alone there. The fear of God actually found in three other state constitutions as a primary educational goal: Baden-Wuerttemberg, North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate.

before but now someone comes up with the idea assumed the reference was to the fear of God in the public education system for good performance in the national education compared contribute, be worth noting that although front with Baden-Wuerttemberg (No. 3) and England (place 4) show some God-fearing country. Other hand, ranks Rheinland-Pfalz (8th place) in midfield and England (15th place) despite the reference to God even second to last place. Saxony (No. 1) and Thuringia (No. 2), however, are apparently quite good even without reference to higher powers in respect of education. (Although one must concede, however, that the reference is given to God in various preambles, such as in Lower Saxony and Thuringia.)
Well, maybe there is in terms of education: "Sire, I did not need this hypothesis ..." What they could be cut out easily ...
(Source of the placings: Education Monitor )

Here once the relevant articles of the respective national constitutions:

Constitution of the State of Baden-Württemberg
Article 12
(1) The youth is in reverence for God , to educate in the spirit of Christian charity, to the brotherhood of all people and for the love of peace, in love for the people and homeland, to moral and political responsibility to professional and social probation and liberal democratic ethos.
(Source )

Constitution of the Free State of Bavaria
131
(1) Schools should not only convey knowledge and skills, but also form the heart and character.

(2) Board of Education goals are reverence for God, respect for religious beliefs and the dignity of man, self-control, responsibility and assume responsibility, helpfulness, openness to all truth, goodness and beauty and sense of responsibility for nature and the environment.

(3) The students are in the spirit of democracy, in which love of native Bavaria and the German People and educate in the sense of reconciliation.

(4) The girls and boys are also to be instructed in infant care, child rearing and home economics in particular. to wake
( source )

constitution for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia

Article 7 (1) reverence for God, respect for human dignity and readiness for social action, is their main objective of education.

(2) Young people should be educated in a spirit of humanity, democracy and freedom, to tolerance and to respect the convictions of others, to account for animals and conservation of natural resources, in love for the people and homeland, the international community and peace sentiments.
( source )

Constitution of Rhineland-Palatinate
Article 33
The school has the youth to godliness and brotherly love, respect and tolerance, honesty and truthfulness, to love people and homeland, for responsibility for nature and environment, to educate ethical and professional attitude and ability in a free, democratic ethos in the spirit of reconciliation.
( source )

Sunday, May 23, 2010

Beste Slideshow Software For Mac

"Hacker in Government" - really desirable?

on SIGINT10 (Cologne, 22.-24.05.2010) was Nick Farr a lecture in which he discussed the advantages that would accrue to his opinion, if "hackers" the political work would take over. It is already

lack the basic condition: While programmers: are (here hackers as the most gifted programmers) the system on the outside, so do not constitute a part of it, this is not for politicians. You are inherent elements of the political system and thus directly affected by the changes to the system. That may be one of the reasons that lead to the well-known, sometimes growing soft "political speech". (Farr spoke of politicians as liars who tell lies politely while his view, hackers say rather rude truths ...)

A programmer can, for example, because it is not an integral part of the system he considered this in accordance with its possibilities test, edit, change, bring as a test crash, in order to draw conclusions about underlying error, etc. It is even from the effects of these tests are not affected. The program crashes, it can modify the code and begin testing again. Politicians on the other hand directly subject to the effects of their actions. So time-term radical political decisions sometimes radical social reactions, leading at best to a "dismissal" of the politician. Considering the parallels to the programmers who would not after a failed test program (only) this fall, but also the programmers ... ;-)

Another criticism arises from the fundamental difference between the respective system components (software here, community / administrative apparatus is there). Hardware and software components, program elements / functions / subroutines etc. have not own intentions, they can be deleted easily change them if necessary. Public authorities and the political establishment, however respond independently (and sometimes unpredictable), they can not be manipulated at will. This applies also to other institutions and authorities areas which are constituted by the respective employees. Such systems have limited capacity to influence. Thus, for example, instructions are interpreted differently than intended by the creator, work orders can delay any (one may have as an applicant on the "Office" already experienced times), or one is simply "not responsible".

Already these two points should be cause some skepticism regarding the idea, political work with the programming methods (here means, of hacking) to afford. A receiver of the talk was also to be considered in the discussion that hackers could not explain quite often (especially to non-hackers). Political work is just at the high part of "sales activity" (compared with whomever). However, that programmers are perhaps the first choice for the sale is not always shown by the fact that development and sales in software companies are mostly carried out by separate departments.

All this, of course, speaks not at all against political activity by programmers / hackers! Them live democracy! The above note is to warn against too clueless to want to transfer the mentality of the political hackerdom business. Where of course against the basic intention Farr, ie only make decisions if you understand a situation really through and through, really mean anything is wrong with.