On 10/13/20 3:17 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
On Oct 13, 2020, at 2:50 PM, Cindy Croxton via cctalk <[email protected]>
wrote:
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My college friend says Wow, that is a LOT of work!
Is there an expectation now that being educated is NOT a lot of work?
It depends. In sciences, people understand that it's a lot of work. In what Robert
Heinlein called the "fuzzy subjects", you can often be a party animal who does
very little real work and get a degree anyway. If so, it doesn't mean you learned
anything and it doesn't mean the field you picked as a major has any merit or usefulness.
Many moons ago I used to work in a paper products plant. I used to
have discussions on philosophy and literature with people with Masters
and even Phd's that stuffed boxes with product just like I did. It did
help pass the time but seemed somewhat of a waste of a lot of time and
money on their part.
I got my degree four years before my retirement.
bill
