Posted by
Icarus on Monday, August 11, 2008 11:49:01 AM
Knowing how to spell is overrated, therefore
college students should not be required to exhibit this basic skill. That, at least, seems to be the
opinion of a criminology senior lecturer at Bucks New University in England. Let these future world leaders "spell it like it is".
The "Lecturer" giving is this enlightened position seems to neglect the fact Microsoft Word, which is what every college student prepares his or her papers on, has spell check automatically turned on. These "new spelling" (to go along with "new math") students would have to go into Word, find the Options sections and deliberately turn off the Spell Check,
or ignore all the prompts to fix the spelling of words like "judgement" and "truely" in order to spell these words as shown here.
So college students know more about software then spelling and the Keepers of Academia's Ivory Towers should accept this. Incredible.