[CAUT] CAUT credential vs. academic program?

[Richard Brekne]

    I didn't say learn from my own mistakes. I said the first person,
    learned from his own mistakes. Then he instructed people, so they
    wouldn't make the same mistakes he did. Not meaning any particular
    person. Just that in the beginning, there were no instructors.


And that is exactly what I replied to John.  The educational system 
evolved to no small degree exactly because of folks wanting to pass on 
what they had learned.  If we do not then intend to show any respect at 
all for what has been learned before then where does that leave us ?  
And that is exactly where the bottom line of all these sorties leveled 
at the education system in reality points to.

And just to be clear... we have to go quite far back into human history 
indeed to find a time where the <<instructor>> did not exist in some or 
another form quite comparable with todays instructor. 

Cheers
RicB