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- From: tps@jptcs.COM (Tim Sailer)
- Newsgroups: soc.singles
- Subject: Re: Education and the Single World
- Message-ID: <5722@jptcs.COM>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 19:33:34 GMT
- References: <lg5a8bINNb46@news.bbn.com>
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- Dawn Hardin (dhardin@bbn.com) wrote:
- : In article <cacqncc@lynx.unm.edu> blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.) writes:
- :
- : >For most of the rest of us, namely myself, I'll take 'intelligent' over
- : >'educated' any day o' the week.
- : >Any goober with half a brain, perseverence and luck can get a college degree.
- :
- : The important question is WHY doesn't this intelligent person have a college
- : degree?
- :
- : If the answer is:
- :
- : A) Got an OK job, never had time to go back;
- : B) Field of interest is something that isn't adequately taught in a classroom;
- : C) Learned more on the field than he'd learn in a class;
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- How about.... I wasn't ready really for college, went 2 years and ran out
- of money and ambition at the same time, got a good job anyway, and since then
- learned more on the job than I ever could in school. People in Oak Ridge
- ask for me by name for projects, so I don't think I'm doing all THAT bad... ;)
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- :
- : A) Thinks he knows more than the professors anyway;
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- At this point in my life, I just might in some cases. :)
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- Tim
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