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Re: Rush: "Lego is a Tool for 4 year olds"
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Tue, 1 Feb 2000 22:00:07 GMT
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Scott:
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Edward Sanburn writes:
> You don't got o college to get employed, you go there to learn, and say,
> yes I have a piece of paper, therefore I am qualified. Just because you
> are a college graduate, doesn't mean you are ready for employment. It
> means I jumped through the hoops and got a piece of paper.
Boy oh boy, for the most part, you just hit the nail right on the head.
Anyone asserting that college isn't a learning experience is using too narrow
a definition. Almost invariably, one will learn about bureaucracy and
incompetence, form-filling and line-standing, as well as (one hopes) the
conventions of human interpersonal discourse. These, I think, are "real
world" skills much more so than Engineering, History, or Mathematics.
Don't get me wrong; these are profoundly important fields of knowledge, but
I think a real case can be made that the minutiae of college (ie, the nonsense
of everyday administrative dealings, et al.) are what much of what everyday
life seems to be about. The rest are professional skills (of widely varying
levels of lucrativity!).
Dave!
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| Dave, (...) College is a learning experience, just for the most part, not a pleasant or an enlightening one. (...) Yes, to a point. Colleges are so bad in everything in terms of paperwork, etc. It gave me a bad taste for inefficient, non consumer (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | Re: Rush: "Lego is a Tool for 4 year olds"
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| The snipper from heck strikes again... (...) You forgot advanced beer drinking, how to file previous year exams to make them easy to find, why eggs are legal only at breakfast time, why freshman lab students might want to jump their lab instructor, (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Rush: "Lego is a Tool for 4 year olds"
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| Jeremy, (...) "With affirmative action programs under legal fire, colleges and universities are searching for minority admissions procedures that can withstand allegations of unfair preferences." I am not assuming anything, this is a quote from the (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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