Hal replied to me: > One of the rules I "houseruled" very quickly was the OJT such that you > can't get above "well trained" or in some cases "expert" with the skill. Day > to day ordinary activities almost never bring you into circumstances in > which you become a verifiable expert at your given skill.
Hello Hal, that raises the question of "who teaches the teachers?" Or perhaps "if you're Trained By A Master, can you surpass the sensei?" There must be a way to improve the state of the art beyond the best manuals and the best available teachers. For the computer operations example, you could argue that they can consult the computer programmers, but that only shifts the problem. Who trains a world-class scientist or engineer? I assumed that this is represented by self-learning, without books or teachers because there are none, and by necessity on the job -- you can't train sensor ops by thinking about a blank wall. Regards, Onno _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
