[AccessD] OT: the "Education" system

John Colby jcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Wed Jun 11 12:42:39 CDT 2003


>I am on the faculty board and I have no Degree myself, something they think
should have restricted my participation in such things.

As well it should.  We can see from this email that you weren't properly
prepared to treat the world with arrogance.

John W. Colby
www.colbyconsulting.com

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Martin Reid
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 1:30 PM
To: accessd
Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: the "Education" system


I take a Degree class for the University and I made it a "real life" this is
how its done in work type of course. I have ran into the most unbelieveable
arrogance from academic staff who have never earned a penny from computing
and yet teach many of the core subjects. I am more interested in my students
being able to do it as opposed to telling me how it should be done but
actually unable to do the work when faced with a keyboard.

My students are required to have 6 mths programming experience before I get
them. Of course as I use VBA and .NET the faculty teach them Java they will
not permit me to take an intro course in either .NET or VBA to prepare them
for the stuff I wil be doing with them.

I have had more than one row with academic staff at Board of Examiners
meetings. I am on the faculty board and I have no Degree myself, something
they think should have restricted my participation in such things.

Martin

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