"I like the idealism. " No doubt. In college, the idealism is probably real. The students really do want to change the world and believe that they can. I like that too.
"Really depends on the professor." True. Not all academics are ivory tower elitists with no real world experience. There are probably even some who don't have real world experience and realize that their view is skewed. Then there are others. Those who have never been out of college. From undergrad, to masters, to PHD, and then to the classroom. Living insulated in the college atmosphere from age 18 (maybe longer if the parents were academics) on is bound to distort reality versus theory. J - No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. - Mark Twain The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provisions should be made to prevent its ascendancy. - Thomas Jefferson On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 6:16 AM, Jerry Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I like the concept. > > > > My only misgiving is the idealism of college students. They don't have > > enough real world experience to see that some ideas aren't going to work. > > > > Pepper in some people who have been out of college for a while to help > > channel the energy and creativity into goals that can be achieved step by > > step. > > I like the idealism. This is a planning project. Obviously none of the > plans are going to be carried out right away and few, if any, are > likely to be carried out exactly as designed. I try to do the same > thing in project planning at work. Start out by figuring out the > coolest, most wonderful things you could do with the project, let your > imagination run wild and don't drag yourself down by practicality too > early. If you limit too early you run the risk of missing some great > ideas. Then once you have the big ideas, it is time for triage. Figure > out what is practical, what isn't practical. How long would it take? > How much would it cost? Do we have the resources? What are the > tradeoffs? All important things to look at but start big. > > > And please don't say there will be college professors. Most of them have > > been in their ivory towers so long that they have no concept of how > things > > work outside of a textbook > > Really depends on the professor. The Public Policy and Management > folks at the UofO were pretty well grounded from what I saw. I wasn't > extensively involved in that department though. Similarly, the > Landscape Architecture prof I worked with had a lot of practical > experience and ran pretty hands-on courses. I came at it from the more > pure science side of things but the L.A. students I worked with were > out to get jobs in their field and were building up practical > experience. > > Cheers, > Jud > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:326589 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
