Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!ucsd!rutgers!att!ihlpb!nevin1 From: nevin1@ihlpb.ATT.COM (Liber) Newsgroups: comp.edu Subject: Re: Student preparedness Message-ID: <9343@ihlpb.ATT.COM> Date: 6 Jan 89 02:03:55 GMT References: <52767@pyramid.pyramid.com> <5053@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <56@rpi.edu> <9252@ut-emx.UUCP> Reply-To: nevin1@ihlpb.UUCP (55528-Liber,N.J.) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois Lines: 22 In article <9252@ut-emx.UUCP> nather@ut-emx.UUCP (Ed Nather) writes: >Do students really believe they've received "an education" when all >they've done is memorize facts to pass a course, and then forget them? >Curiously, it seems that many do ... Well, considering that this is one way to get good benchmarks, er, I mean grades, and that most of the world only looks at the grades and not the person (not all grad schools bother to interview, for instance), why should they believe anything else? The measure of education is the GPA; the rest is considered a side-effect. Note: I don't believe that a GPA should be the measure of an education, but I've seen how grad schools accept students and how companies hire, and the truth of the matter is that grades are too important. Too many students would rather get a good grade than a good education, since it is easier to use the grade to get a "foot in the door". -- _ __ NEVIN ":-)" LIBER nevin1@ihlpb.ATT.COM (312) 979-4751 IH 4F-410 ' ) ) "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, / / _ , __o ____ briefed, debriefed or numbered! My life is my own!" / (_