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Re: Education and Productivity: Whats the Correlation?
Subject:Re: Education and Productivity: Whats the Correlation? From:"John M. Forsyth" <jmf -at- PSIONWORLD -dot- NET> Date:Tue, 24 Jun 1997 16:14:26 +0100
> No--it's just you. I don't think degrees have anything to do with it.
> ...
> Whether they had a degree in anything turned to be completely
irrelevant at
> every level as far as my interaction with them went.
From my own experience I can agree with this wholeheartedly. Discipline,
professionalism and dedication are not things taught at college, and
shouldn't be considered natural attributes of a graduate. Nor does the
higher education system monopolise mental ability the way it monopolises
intellectual posturing.
Universities, and the class of graduates, surely contain a mixture of
slacking and seriousness fairly similar to the rest of the world.
John.
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