Drew Wutka
DWUTKA at marlow.com
Wed Jun 11 13:19:22 CDT 2003
ROTFLMAO! Drew -----Original Message----- From: John Colby [mailto:jcolby at colbyconsulting.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 12:43 PM To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: RE: [AccessD] OT: the "Education" system >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 _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com