On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Jane Susi wrote:
> Don't we always want something, thats unreachable? I would LOVE to be really
> educated in computer stuff, but i guess my train's already gone, and here I am,
> studying in Music Academy....and i guess i'll always be sort of self-teached,
> in computer stuff.....life is sad.
I guess that the knowledge I acquired by myself (about computers in
general and Linux/Unix in particular) outnumbers what I learned attending
courses _easily_. And this knowledge will remain in my brain (hmm, this
rhymes :-) as opposed to something I "had to learn for the exam".
Being really educated doesn't mean having attended to courses in a special
field. The unis and colleges don't have a monopoly on education, or in
other words, they can't teach you things that you can't learn in a
different way (reading documentation, learning from friends, etc.).
Nils
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