RE: Education (Was Re: Techwriting After the Boom)

["Stevenson, Rebecca" <Rebecca -dot- Stevenson -at- workscape -dot- com>]

Degrees have nothing to do with being smart (whatever that means); they state that you've mastered a given body of knowledge to a specified depth--the divisions of that body being hoops.

After barely passing calculus and understanding none of it anyway, I found a set of hoops I liked much better--they had names like "Chaucer." When am I going to use *that* in the real world? :-)

Rebecca

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From: surfer_924 -at- earthlink -dot- net [mailto:surfer_924 -at- earthlink -dot- net]
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 12:12 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: Education (Was Re: Techwriting After the Boom)

"Why is it that we qualify degrees by having to go through X hoops?
Shouldn't we instead quantify degrees by being smarter?"

Yes, but how are you going to measure whether someone is "smarter" other
than by creating some kind of "hoops" for them to go through? Isn't this
what the whole certification debate is about?


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