Jim Thompson wrote:

On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:41:44 -0700, Joerg
wrote:


Joel Kolstad wrote:


I've volunteered to teach at the community college level, for FREE.
I was turned down because I don't have a teaching certificate ;-)


They don't deserve you or the ;-).


I agree with Don. Whoever "evalulated" your application was doing the
students a great disservice by rejecting you. This is an unfortunate aspect
of academia today.


Start your own classes. All you need is a room with basic media
equipment, preferably something you can plug into a laptop. Sometimes a
local church can help out, and no, you do not have to be a member there.
For example, ours is used by the local board of realtors for that purpose.

This elitist small circle thinking seems to spread. Even in IEEE it has
come to the point where some people do not like to publish there anymore
because they made the access so expensive that only members of one
particular society inside IEEE can read it, plus people at academic
institutes. IOW the audience is so small that you might as well
self-publish on the web which costs almost nothing.

What they all must realize is that pretty soon knowledge acquisition
will become free of charge. No stupid license rule or accreditation is
going to hold up that steamroller. It's coming, right here on the Internet.


Let's hope. It seems that every time I want to see a paper, it's not
in my "profile" of IEEE subscriptions.

I come up for renewal soon. I think I'm going to give them a large
public dump ;-)


Every year I am thinking about that, too, same with VDE. But then I try
another round. The library is a huge sore spot with IEEE. Luckily much
is available outside. It just takes a little longer. Then again 5 mins
on Google are a better investment than spending $30+ on a paper where
you don't even know whether it'll be useful because they only give you
the abstract to look at. Plus I usually find something interesting while
searching, often more valuable than the text I had been looking for.

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Regards, Joerg

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