Good observation.  One of my instructors in college once said "College 
only teaches you about 25% of what you need to know.  It gives you the 
tools to understand what you will be taught in the workplace".  I have 
found this to be very true.

Doug Pauls



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Date:   08/15/2013 08:40 AM
Subject:        Re: [TN] NTC again [TN] Refreshment (NTC rant continues)
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Bev et al, a few weeks ago, I heard an interesting observation about 
education and its value on the radio. The speaker said education provides 
knowledge, and knowledge reduces fear. Living with minimal fear is a 
valuable behavior. Thus, anthropology and Spanish have practical value, 
not easily quantified.

I studied physics at a liberal arts college. One of the physics profs 
there made a comment I have never forgotten: The only students who are 
getting a real liberal education are the science students. Now I would 
expand upon his statement: The most useful path in education to follow is 
one in science, preferably physical science.   Louis Hart

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Subject: Re: [TN] Refreshment (NTC rant continues)

And yet another addition.

The oldest is a former paratrooper who I then helped put through fire 
fighter's school, now studying for captain while an active city 
firefighter and pulling in a good salary.  The oldest daughter with a BA 
in sociology and anthropology is living in a camper van and working as a 
farm hand while the younger daughter with a BA in international 
development and Spanish has been teaching English in Mexico but not 
getting enough hours to make ends meet and is now coming home to live with 
us for a max of six months while she tries to get her act together.  I 
wish the girls had taken something practical, but you can't really tell 
teenagers/young adults much. It is hard watching them learn the hard way.

Bev

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