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From: nam2254@dsacg2.UUCP (Tom Ohmer)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Education
Message-ID: <848@dsacg2.UUCP>
Date: 29 Dec 89 13:34:55 GMT
References: <848@mindlink.UUCP>
Organization: Defense Logistics Agency Systems Automation Center, Columbus
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From article <848@mindlink.UUCP>, by a684@mindlink.UUCP (Nick Janow):
> 
> all other knowledge?  If you have learned only the science necessary to be a
> COBOL programmer, how difficult will it be to learn biology?  You personally

It's probably only a problem with this particular example, but I (BSCIS) 
don't think you can learn just the science necessary to be a COBOL programmer 
and be successful in a career in DP.  Other sciences need to be learned, too.  
My education at DeVry was VERY CIS oriented, and still included things like 
accounting, business, economics, math, Systems Analysis, etc.  I use bits 
and pieces of what I learned in those subjects (and others) everyday, and 
I feel that that helps make me be the best that I can be (oh, oh, been 
employed by the fed. gov't too long :-).  

I tried to get back to the beginning of this thread, and can't.  What is 
important is to try to find ways to make education as good as it can be, not 
trim it to the absolute minimum necessary (according to 'someone') so it will 
fit neatly into 'someone's' Big Mac-sized plastic box (career path plans).  
-- 
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