Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!pyramid!decwrl!lowlif.dec.com!davis From: davis@lowlif.dec.com (Earth@USA@Missouri@KC@DEC@Davis.Richard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Higher Education (was: pirating nonsense) Message-ID: <8803282127.AA07650@decwrl.dec.com> Date: 28 Mar 88 21:27:46 GMT Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 35 WARNING! I apologize for this, but I just couldn't resist this one: Recently, George Lehmann writes to the world: >In article <2436@bsu-cs.UUCP> cfchiesa@bsu-cs.UUCP (Christopher Chiesa) writes: >>Dream ON, buckaroo! Where the heck did you get the idea that anybody could >>actually LEARN anything USEFUL from SCHOOL? In my personal experience, the > <...> >>that I've learned ten times as much from just "messing around" on my own, >>than in ALL my school classes combined. > > >If you availed yourself of the FULL resources (including the people) at your >school, you would obviously have more than a piece of paper. [gloriously extols the virtues of higher education] > > >I certainly hope this guy is an isolated example of what comes out of our >school systems. And we wonder about the reports of American education >trailing Japan and the Soviets... Sorry, but he's not isolated. Having recently graduated from college, I feel much the same way. The public colleges of America are not set up to handle the educational needs of their superior students and some people can't afford the private universities. I came from a state university that had a cluster of 2 VAX 8650's, an 11/785, and an 11/780, with terminals in EVERY DORM ROOM! They had the hardware, but managed it like a warden would manage a prison. They had good instructors, but couldn't support high-level classes for "only a few students." Understandably, it is necessary to teach a class to the slowest person in it, but how boring for some of us! I feel like I taught myself most of what I use today in the industry. Sad, but true. What's the answer? Richard Davis (DEC made me say it. You believe that? Well, I have this bridge for sale...)