Drew Wutka
DWUTKA at marlow.com
Wed Jun 11 13:14:37 CDT 2003
Martin, I'm behind you 110%. What REALLY gets my goat, is when an instructor/teacher harps on semmantics over concepts. They would rather that a student knows the definition of a tuple, then have the student understand what fields in a table really are. Drew -----Original Message----- From: Martin Reid [mailto:mwp.reid at qub.ac.uk] Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 12:30 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 _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com