On 9 Feb 2003 at 11:11, Winsor Crosby wrote:
> The world seems to be divided into two camps, those who think that
> college should be a trade school and those who think that it is a place
> to get an education. They are not the same thing, nor do they have the
> same value.
>
In Robert M Pirsig's "ZEN and the art of motorcycle maintenance"
is a professor's statement: "Eliminate the whole degree-and-grading
system and you get real education". Two pages further a student's
statement: "Of course you can't eliminate the degree and grading
system. After all, that's what we're here for." Subsequently Pirsig
argues the case for advancing from a grade motivated person to a
knowledge motivated person. Faszinating reading.
Now, isn't the knowledge motivation one of the reasons for taking
part in - for example - this OM-list?
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Reinhold
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