(sorry to chime in so late, haven't kept up with email while I've been traveling
to attend some training seminars :-)
When I used to teach training courses for Digital, it initially baffled me why
customers would pay significant prices to send employees to the courses I taught,
when I'd learned what I was teaching from experience without benefit of those
courses.
Then I realized that it took me a couple of years of product-specific experience
on top of seven or eight previous years in the field to get to the point of
competence with that material. The recommended course syllabus suggested
customers should finish the course string in about four to six months. Sure, they
wouldn't be as fluent as I, but they would be almost as productive.
Another thing was that I found when I started teaching I had gaps in my
knowledge. I knew the stuff I'd used pretty much inside and out, but the stuff I
hadn't had to come to grips with was completely unknown to me. The students
completing the training would not have the detail knowledge in any area, but they
also would not have gaps in their knowledge. What they would have is a good
framework for acquiring the detailed knowledge and skills that *they* needed, and
much faster than they could without the training!
So the learn it yourself school has some drawbacks too.
--Bruce (who's writing this on an airplane en route to yet another training
seminar!)
Benjamin Scott wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Joshua S. Freeman wrote:
> > Some people need lessons, handholding, mentoring, etc. to loearn concepts
> > and skills that they might not have a natural affinity towards...
>
> Plus, some people learn well by reading, others by demonstration, others
> still be lecture and explanation. People vary; not everyone can learn well
> simply by reading a book. Many computer professionals can, and I suspect that
> contributes to why they like computers, as computers are still a largely
> text-based medium.
>
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> Ben Scott
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