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Posted by Bent Stigsen on 06/20/06 21:37
R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah wrote:
> Bent Stigsen wrote:
> <snip>
>> So how does that make sense. If you look at a person after 6 years of
>> experience, then again after 40 years of experience. Has he become less
>> knowledgeable?
>>
>> Well, until you hit senility, but that generally comes after retirement.
>
> If we become knowledgeable and diligent because of the number of
> days/hours we live, our brain will blow up.
I don't think that have happened yet. I know neural networks with a fixed
set of neurons and fixed wiring can degrade in various ways with continual
added information, but our brain is luckily far more complicated and
dynamic.
> Everyone needs some kind of experience and exposure to do something
> well. Say, for example, to eat using fork, you need experience--but a
> person who use fork for years cannot directly throw the food to his
> stomach.
I think it is a bit too simplified analogy. But to follow you analogy, the
more experienced person will know what to eat and not to eat, yet more
experienced person may know *when* to eat the different kinds of food and
how to mix them so they taste good.
> <snip>
>> usually core ideas can be extracted and easily passed on.
>>
>> As I said, education in itself doesn't make a person, but at a personal
>> level it *can* be a shortcut to a higher level of experience.
>>
>> Newsgroups is a different aspect of the same thing. Knowledge and
>> experience is passed from person(s) to persons(s).
>
> By attending a college, a person may no't become serious; you
> can still attend college and still be a playboy---and similarly you can
> be educated without attending the college. Sometime there are more
> chances that the person who doesn't attend college will be more
> rational and educated than one who do so as he is getting years of
> repetitive blabby.
I never said it would change a person, obviously it will not make some lazy
sob into a super efficient person. And I didn't either say it is not
something one can do without. It is an option.
I not absolutely sure what the equivalence of college is in my country, but
if it is the stage after highschool, then sure it has a lot of "blabby",
But I think the intention is to give a basic foundation of common
knowledge, not as such being practical.
Higher educations are more targeted. It is simply a matter of getting
knowledge, so that one doesn't have to reinvent everything.
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/Bent
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