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Subject:Re: Certification/Degrees From:ROBERT SIDMAN <ROBERT_SIDMAN -at- FMSO -dot- NAVY -dot- MIL> Date:Thu, 12 Dec 1996 10:02:18 -0500
$.02 on certification ...
We've talked and written this issue to death. I do believe a prior comment on
our perspective changing as we gain experience is correct. And what do we get if
we're certified -- a piece of paper and the right to say we're in the Certified
Club? At that point, I'd invoke the (Groucho) Marx theory on memberships: "I
refuse to belong to any club that would have me as a member."
