[rescue] Mainframe on eBay

[velociraptor]

On 9/21/05, Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> wrote:
> velociraptor wrote:
> > On 9/21/05, Barry Keeney <barryk at chaoscon.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>  Too many kids go into fields they like without understanding
> >>the likely job market they'll enter with that degree.
> >
> >
> > I disagree, entirely.  A university education is not intended to
> > be trade school, though that is what everyone is trying to turn
> > them into it seems.  Universities and colleges are supposed to
> > be producing well-rounded individuals that can go into the world
> > and make their way, whatever field they choose, not prepare
> > individuals for a specific job in their chosen field.
>
> Unfortunately, many secondary learning institutions are now turning out
> graduates who can't formulate coherent thoughts or sentences.

I know, I have to read their crappy emails every day--they can't
string together two sentences.

And that's my point--whatever happen to well rounded?  Teaching to tasks
is not what universities and colleges were designed to do.

=Nadine=