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On Sat, 23 Mar 2013 12:47:25 -0400, iBoaterer
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In article ,
says...

On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:23:37 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

Surely you are not saying that teachers are bereft of "real life
experience."

Yes I am. Most people in academia went to school when they were five
and never left, retiring there sixty years later. It is one of the
worst examples of vertical integration in the world.

Hmm, Architects, engineers, medical professionals, etc. must not have
any real world experience either, because they themselves are required
to take continuing education, plus they are teaching because anyone
going into a profession like the above needs to be taught by the
supervising architects or engineers in order for them to obtain a
license. But then again, according to you, all anyone needs is a CAD
program and then engineering happens magically.

That has nothing to do with what we are talking about
I have to do CEUs
I sit with architects in some of the classes.
They are generally taught by road warriors who come from the trade and
live the codes they are teaching, not some college professor.

I'd use that CAD program that does all of the engineering for you!!
Again, you've failed to grasp my post. Let's take that architect. Now,
they don't know diddly about engineering. They have to be able to design
a simple span beam, and they get to use the AISC manual to do it! They
didn't learn how to do that in the real world they learned it in class.
BUT, it will help them in the real world because before the engineern
designs all of the members with his CAD program snerk, the architect
can at least get a beam size close so that he can develop his details.
AND he's a teacher, having interns working under him. Same with
engineers and EIT's. Same with doctors and interns.