via hbwt - ZDNet: Story: How schools are tricked into using PCs--when Macs are better.

As you might expect this article provoked a flurry of messages in the talkback forum. Some of the most specious arguments supporting the use of PCs are based on the belief that "... school children should be taught on PCs because they are harder and less reliable than Macs. You acquire more understanding of computers and computing from solving these foulups than anything else, which can then be applied to any platform or application."

D'uh!

Update: Prompted by Brian's comments, Seth has come up with a perfect analogy that exposes the absurdity of the above claim.