On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 05:54:15PM -0500, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: [...] > The Dreyfus Model of Sill Acquisition [1], describes skills acquisition > as passing through five levels: novice, advanced beginner, competent, > proficient, and expert. [...] > I also > taught nursing where we take novices and turn them into advanced > beginners over the course of 4 years.
Thanks, Doug! That was most enlightening. Five stages, four years per stage. I'd often wondered why I'd displayed no sign of competence in all my years with Debian, but I see that it won't be long now! Mmm. Or will it? Cheers, David -- David Jardine "Running Debian GNU/Linux and loving every minute of it." -L. von Sacher-M.(1835-1895) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]