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Re: Idle Ramblings
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Thu, 20 Apr 2000 00:25:02 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Shiri Dori writes:
> I learned a lot on my own, with slight guidiance
> from teachers), and that, IMHO, is FAR more important than getting straight
> A's (which, frankly, I did and still do).
Of course you did, and I bet you and everyone else at that school learned
things they were really interested in. I think one problem with American
schools is that they think that there's a strict curriculum which everybody
needs to learn in order to succeed in life. What they don't realize is that
you can succeed just as well as a baker or a carpenter or a ditch digger as you
can as a CEO or a professor or a venture capitalist. You might not make as
much money, but it's really stupid to think that that's what makes people
successful. And, ironically, it's probably exactly that belief that prevents
people from having good lives.
By the way, I love digging a good ditch every now and then. The thing is, for
a lot of what we consider unskilled jobs, a person who loves the work but might
not be so book smart can do a much better job than the engineer who knows all
the theory, but hates the job.
> > And you
> > can learn how to please people who don't actually know how to recognize high
> > quality work (like corporate managers and human resources departments).
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> If that works, I won't have any trouble finding a job. ;-)
Well, don't count on it. I did well on a lot of standardized tests and
required essays because I knew the rules to follow, but I've been looking for a
job for nearly a year now. It seems that you not only have to know the rules,
you also have to be willing to restrict yourself to following them. Thing is,
my B.S. degree is good, but my just plain BS isn't.
> > Of course it's not fair to poorer schools, but there really shouldn't be poor
> > schools should there? Why is school funding based on local property tax?
> > It's
> > because rich people deserve a better education. Why? Because they're rich,
> > and they hold the political and economic power in this country. Now you
> > wouldn't want the ruling class to be stupid, would you? How would we ever • get
> > along with stupid leaders? They might waste all our precious money on poor
> > people.
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> Youch. I know you're kidding (OK, I hope you're kidding) but still, that's why
> I hate capitalism. It goes hand in hand with democracy, which is the stupidest
> thing ever. All people are equal, but the rich people are better. Yuck.
Sorry, irony don't carry well in HTML text, especially since I haven't mastered
the <irony> tag.
Capitalism does suck, but greed is the only human quality which we can really
depend on. Most utopias are based on altruism or communism or something, but
they fail because few people can be completely altruistic or community minded.
Capitalism works (such as it does) because everybody is greedy to some extent.
And the people who aren't are easy to beat down, almost by definition.
> Well, as Frank said - it's spring break here. Although I *should* go help my
> mom prepare for the Seder... but no school, anyhow. Yay!
Sorry, forgot about that, us unemployed people don't get vacations.
-Phil
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| (...) This is playing dangerously close to equivocation: using one mindset’s definition of success to refute the success of another mindset that uses a different definition. If you define success as happiness or job satisfaction (and that’s a valid (...) (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Hey, yo, whoa! I know, and I admitted it! (see bottom part of (URL) hold yer horses, and cars too! I won't be able to drive for two months yet, neither will you; but hey, a girl can dream, can't she? <grin> -Shiri FUT .people, .off-topic.fun (25 years ago, 12-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.castle.org.cw, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.people)
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