I geuss the whole thing here is if you are talking about courses or education for the sake of employmnet/advancement or getting an education to develop a career.
I do agree that it is just as important to have a well rounded and broad life experience resume as it is a good work resume, but I look at it this way. If I am taking a program on networking or programming the only history I should be learning is the history as it relates to the topic at hand. .i.e. Who invented etherent and how it came about? All the Yalta stuff should have been taken care of in previous educational arenas (like high school) or like you said...Discovery Channel or Spike TV (the first network for men) > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Ian Bruseker > Sent: January 5, 2005 1:01 PM > To: CLUG General > Subject: Re: [clug-talk] [OT] Sait > > > On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 12:15:41 -0700, Kevin Anderson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <snip> > > They simply make the useless courses "mandatory" so that > teachers with tenure > > can teach useless subjects that are no longer relevant rather than being > > expected/required to stay current, which happens to their > students in the > > real world. > > > (My contribution to taking this even further off-topic and rant-ish) > > On a whole, I liked your rant and agree with it (especially the part > about parents paying to get rid of their kids, very amusing), except > this one little bit. I heard this same argument alot when I was at > DeVry. "Why do we need to take modern history? We're going to be > computer programmers." Well, ok, the possibilities are slim of you > ever having a heavy discussion with anyone about the Yalta Conference > and its effects on post-WWII Europe, but if the topic ever came up > (like it just did), do you want to look like have a clue what's being > discussed, or do you want to stand there with a blank look on your > face? Learning the skills to do one particular job, whether it be > flipping burgers or programming computers, is good, but there's a big > difference between being skilled and being educated. I'm not saying > one necessarily needs to get that education from school (read a book, > watch Discovery Channel, whatever), but I really hate seeing our > society turn into a mass of burger-flipper-education-level drones. > (There's a rant to be had right there about "the man" and how he keeps > you down by not educating you, but I'll leave that to someone else to > run with.) I just like to know the people I'm hanging with or working > with have a broad life experience so we can have a conversation about > something other than work, and I personally think broad-based post > secondary educations are a good way to give people that experience. > > Ian > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
