Eleven School Committee candidates offered their ideas for how Cambridge's school system can be improved in the next millennium in a forum last night at the Howard Johnson Hotel on Memorial Drive.
The event --titled "Cambridge 2000 and Beyond: A City for the Next Millenium"--was organized by Cambridge residents Lawrence Adkins, Allen Dobson, Charles L. Stead and Elie Yarden. Two of the candidates in the Nov. 2 election did not attend.
Candidates were given one minute to answer a series of questions from organizers of the event and the audience.
Forum organizer Lawrence Adkins raised signs notifying the candidates when they had 30 and 10 seconds remaining, and hit two glasses together when they ran out of time.
Candidates stressed the basics in educating the city's students for the information-based economy of the next century.
"We need to teach them how to think, because there's a lot of information out there and we need to teach them what to do with it," incumbent Susana M. Segat said.
Candidate Donald Harding stressed the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic and said the school system should take advantage of the information technology in the city.
"We have development that is technology-based, and we're not taking advantage of that," Harding said.
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