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Re: Rush: "Lego is a Tool for 4 year olds"
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Tue, 1 Feb 2000 21:58:36 GMT
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Dave,
Dave Schuler wrote:
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> Scott:
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> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Edward Sanburn writes:
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> > 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.
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> 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.
College is a learning experience, just for the most part, not a pleasant
or an enlightening one.
> 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.
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
friendly items.
Scott S.
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| Scott: (...) 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, (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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