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Steve B wrote:

wrote


Use tools (maybe a lawsuit possible here). It amazes me how little of
actual practical value i learned in school.

I was confused about why a college educated person was more valuable than
one with HKU learning. (Hard Knocks University) A man once said that in
college, they teach you how to learn. How to identify the problem, and how
to find the solutions. Not so much on teaching you the dates and places and
facts. Then it made sense.

I think that school also is an indicator that a person can stay with
something for a good while, and not move on or quit.


Yeah, not enough people realize the value of that latter point. You
know on a resume or interview they always want to ask you what project
did you accomplish that turned out well? Well, a college degree or,
even better, a grad degree, shows that at least once in your life you
could stick to a project for four years or so, carry it through a bunch
of personal distractions, basically manage yourself to satisfactorily
achieve a distant goal without every detail being laid out for you.



I beleve I read a recent post on alt.hvac which had words like, "Work on
things to learn how, but also take courses to learn why."

Made sense to me...

Jeff

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