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Re: Rush: "Lego is a Tool for 4 year olds"
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Wed, 2 Feb 2000 04:15:13 GMT
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"Scott E. Sanburn" wrote:
<snip>

Going to college
has NOTHING to do with  "initiative, leadership and an ability to work
in groups ". Working in the real world deals with these issues, and
college is about as removed from reality as anything.

I have to totally disagree with you here... We work in groups in school
right now, You have to learn the team spirit and how to work in a group
in order to be productive in the REAL world.. Companys don't want people
who are only interested in themselves, they want people who are able to
work with a group to better the company.  Maybe it's just my computer
programming/networking major. example...  when you're writing a prg you
don't reinvent the wheel, you use other peoples code.. now.. you know
someone else has what you need, and they aren't a "team" player,
wouldn't you be a little more than upset that you have to rewrite that
code... besides the fact your employer wouldn't be to happy about you
taking the extra time... believe me.. that person wouldn't be there very
long.. In this world you're either a team player or you're not.. though
you better damn well learn how to be if you ever want to get anywhere...
and where's the best place to learn that? School.. at least they've
finally gotten one part of education right...  Now if they'd just take
that algebra and shove it someplace I'd really be happy...

Scott S.

Gee imagine if that becomes the new national standard! :) I'd get
a scholarship to every school out there!!!! :)

-Rich

I'm with ya there Rich! I could use a few of those scholarships!

Tamy
Tired and cranky tonight :(

--
Keep on Bricken'
-Tamy

Follow the bouncing boxes!
http://home.att.net/~mookie1/jambalaya.html



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  Re: Rush: "Lego is a Tool for 4 year olds"
 
(...) To underscore the importance of teamwork, I will also point out that here at IBM, evaluation of teamwork is roughly 1/3 of our annual appraisal. (24 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: Rush: "Lego is a Tool for 4 year olds"
 
< cross posted to off-topic-debate > Rich, (...) Hmm... Being a Rush fan and a definite AFOL, I can see the logic of his thinking. Testing people on the ability to build anything, regardless of how good they might be, is a strange way of testing (...) (24 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.general)

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