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On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 15:34:49 -0400, Keyser Söze wrote: I'm fairly certain you are not in charge of deciding what comprises "useful skills. We also differ on the purpose of education. You and most others here have the trade school concept...you get educated in order to get and hold a job. I think the purpose of education is to instill a desire to learn, and to teach students how to use their minds, and where to go to acquire the facts they need in order to make intelligent decisions. Most "useful" skills come from things I learned on my own and experience. I think "useful" is the ability to take care of everything around me. (house, car, boat etc) without having to call anyone. Things I do just for esoterica are "hobbies" like reading statutes and SCOTUS decisions. Again it was "useful" when I was trying to buy the house next door in a tax deed sale and later a foreclosure auction. I did hire a real lawyer but I was a little disappointed when his title search looked exactly like mine, his advice looked exactly like the notes I had already made and the last straw was when I pointed out to him a little known blurb in the Florida law that allows a mortgage to be un enforcible if the holder does not service it for a period of time. He had the gall to call me a day later and tell me about it, like I had not just given him the exact statute number and line number the day before. I will never have a law degree but it doesn't mean I can't read the law with a pretty good degree of understanding. I dabble in astrophysics. I will never be Neil Degrasse Tyson but I think I could have a decent conversation with him. I like history but I will never be a degreed historian. That doesn't keep me from reading about it. Perhaps without listening to lectures that are loaded with opinion, I am actually free to have one of my own. At that point, who is the person with independent thought? I thought of Harry this morning. http://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine |
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