> -----Original Message----- > From: Nick Gleitzman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 8 September 2005 11:09 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [WSG] Educate the educators (was) Barclays > standards redesign > > On 8 Sep 2005, at 10:43 AM, Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] wrote: > > > But not everybody can afford this kind of employment mix. > If you are a > > full > > time lecturer all you can rely on is books, training courses and > > seminars to > > learn from. > > What about the web itself? > > > That's actually no different to being a student, with the > > exception that the lecturer has got a full time job in addition to > > having to > > learn all the stuff they have to then teach. > > ...and that's no different from having a full-time job as a > developer, > and having to research - and learn - all the new stuff.
But you have to agree it is much easier to stay up-to-date if you work in the field every day and actually practically implement new technologies. If a company looks for new staff members they will think twice before employing somebody who has got no practical experience in the field. For a good reason - you might have read a book about it, but you don't know it until you have done it. Teachers at University/Tafe/Highschool do not have the opportunity to try out what they learn, yet they still have to stand infront of the students confidently and teach them an ever-changing technology. That's bloody hard! Developers learn something in theory, try it out practically, and if it doesn't work they will keep on trying as the go along until they understand it. Maybe I am just a practical kind of person, but that's the way I see it. ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
