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From: shirley@m.cs.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Credit for experience!
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Date: 18 Nov 88 05:49:00 GMT
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Before you are too harsh on your attackers, remember that you are
challenging the foundation of academics.  When somebody graduates from
college, it is because she has accumulated a certain number of credits.
She has also learned, but this is not why she graduated (correlation !=
causation).  If knowlege were the basis for credits, then more credit
should be given to a student getting an "A" than a student getting a
"C".  Just because you learned ten times as much is irrelevent.  The
credit is for the hours of mind-numbing boredom spent in class.  You and
your radical ideas are scary.  Are you a member of the ACLU or something?


If we didn't all have to do the full four years, the administrators
would be denied their constitutional right to bleed us dry.  If you can
avoid taking classes where you already know the material, you are lucky.
If you can get credit for that material you are blessed.


Peter "L. Ron" Shirley