| > But... why? For 99.9% of students Word is all they need. MS Office is especially better than LibreOffice with Excel and PowerPoint. If all you use is Word, then the licence you have to pay to use it might not be worth the difference with Writer. > There are not many compelling reasons to not teach the software people will actually use in the real world. Well, I do use MS Office in "the real world", and LibreOffice at home. When I landed in my company, we got a mandatory session of "advanced" Excel and Powerpoint usage, because that's inexpensive for the company to spend a day or two to make sure we can use the tools adequately rather than betting high school taught us. Not everyone uses MS Office in "the real world", nor in "the business world". Most of the document we receive and send is in PDF format. > I mean, why not eschew the English language in schools and teach kids Swahili? Maybe students accustomed to Swahili can push the change. Or maybe not. Come on, I'm quite positive we can both be smarter than that :) |