[CAUT] CAUT credential vs. academic program?

[Richard Brekne]

Hi John.

I'd have to ask what good does it do to learn from your own mistakes... 
try and pass on how to not make the same mistakes... only to be met with 
this attitude against learning from the resulting educational system ?  
I'd submit we end up spending too much time re-inventing the wheel if we 
accept all this.

As said before several times now... we all KNOW that credentials dont 
make the man (to use your expression).  The flaws in the world of 
credentials however do not constitute a good enough reason for rejecting 
them entirely. We dont just decide on a kind of intellectual anarchy 
because a few of the protocols in use go bad.

Fact is... MOST folks who are accredited with this or that or the other 
represent a valuable knowledge resource to anyone clever enough to know 
how to access them.  Some are easier to open up then others... but 
hey... lifes a bitch and then you die... just how much do we have a 
right to expect of others anyways eh ??


Cheers
RicB

    It seems to me, that the first people in a field, would have to be
    self-taught. They learned by their mistakes. What they passed on,
    was don't make the same mistakes, that had already been  made.

    Some academics to a very poor job, of imparting their knowledge,
    and  unfortunately, their pay-scales are determined by the courses
    they passed, and not their ability to impart the knowledge
    successfully. Some teacher/instructors couldn't teach their way out
    of a wet paper bag.  But they do have the credentials. Credentials
    do NOT the man make.

    John M. Ross
    Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada