Re: Job Offer

On Mon, 17 Mar 2025 12:07:11 -0400, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

On 3/17/2025 10:30 AM, AMuzi wrote:

On 3/16/2025 10:01 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 3/16/2025 4:28 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote:

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Education isn't an accomplishment, it's a tool.

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It's both. Education can't be simply given to a person. It can be
greatly helped by a competent teacher, but the person still has to
work to achieve it. Doing that successfully is an accomplishment.
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What's odd is that this discussion group has a few denizens who think
they can accomplish just as much without that tool.
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In modern parlance, they actually are the tools.
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I don't think it's binary or Manichean.  That is, both or all can be
true in different examples.
 
Examples abound of both autodidacts with gaping holes in their
repertoire (me) and others who accomplished much from the same
background (Franklin).

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Benjamin Franklin was brilliant. It's been pointed out that his science
accomplishments alone would have won Nobel Prizes had they existed.
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But any modern American is a fool if he says "Franklin was great and he
learned it all himself. So I don't need no schooling."

Many people aren't capable of learning by themselves, and some people
think it's enough to know what they've been taught.

--
C'est bon
Soloman