Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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Andy Dingley wrote:
On Aug 17, 8:38 am, stuart noble wrote:
Given how the media rules these days, the study of it is bound to
become an important discipline.

There's a big difference though between being Marshall McLuhan and
doing a Meeja Studies degree because you cocked up your A levels and
couldn't get in for accountancy.

Those courses have been around for quite long enough to have at least
started to have an influence on TV etc. If they have, I can't say I've
noticed. Except that general standards have fallen - strange given the
equipment etc is so much easier to use these days. Which should leave
creativity free to flourish.

100% of all the actual engineering I did commercially didn't need me to
go to university to obtain. At least 50% I got on an apprenticeship
course BUT the one thing that it did give me was to teach HOW to think
about problems and HOW to use tools to solve problems that had never
been solved before.

If you want to build a house, you don't do complex calculations on
material prosperities and extensive calculus: you look it all up in a
table of building practices.

And that's the difference between a technical and an academic education.
A technical education teaches you the wisdom of those who have been
befo An academic education teaches you how to add to that knowledge
yourself.

That is why you need probably only 5% of people to actually have that
sort of education.

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