>George,
>
>>> I was talking with a friend of recently, who happens to be a Professor of Computer Science at Kennesaw State University here in Georgia, where I
> studied back in the late 80s. He told me that since that time, at Kennesaw at least, there has been a de-emphasis on what we would refer to as the
> "principles" in favvor of additional emphasis on information processing. This coincides very nicely with your observation. <<
>
>This is what I call the "Doctors in China" problem. Assume that China has announced they need doctors. To be a doctor in China, you need to know two things: medicine and Chinese. Learning Chinese by itself qualifies you in no way to be a doctor in China.
>
>Sounds to me as if the universities are concentrating on the Chinese, not the medicine.

There's some truth to what you say, Kenneth. They're still teaching the principles, I just don't think that they're putting as much emphasis on them as they did in the past.

We were told what the rules were, and would either get marked down for violating them, or get the assignment returned with a big, red "Do Over!" on it. As a result, I learned to follow the rules, and do so to this day. I'm not so sure that they're as strict these days. Of course, I don't know this firsthand.