On 10/16/15 5:17 PM, Califbill wrote:
Keyser Söze wrote:
On 10/16/15 3:45 PM, Califbill wrote:
Keyser Söze wrote:
On 10/16/15 2:26 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 13:09:50 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 10/16/2015 11:47 AM, Keyser Söze wrote:


You need to expand your horizons and stop paying so much attention to
libertarian nonsense and right-wing media. Perhaps you can audit a local
university liberal arts course in critical thinking.



There you go again.


Harry seems to think that a degree he got during the Nixon
administration from a college nobody has ever heard of, allows him to
denigrate others.



I got my first college degree during the Johnson Administration and my
second during the Nixon Administration. The concepts of and teaching of
courses in critical thinking haven't changed, and, considering your
earlier post in this thread, you might benefit from those courses.


According to you a degree is obsolete at time of receipt.



You are not a careful reader.




I read your post.


You didn't understand it.

Keyser Söze wrote:
On 10/16/15 5:17 PM, Califbill wrote:
Keyser Söze wrote:
On 10/16/15 3:45 PM, Califbill wrote:
Keyser Söze wrote:
On 10/16/15 2:26 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 13:09:50 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 10/16/2015 11:47 AM, Keyser Söze wrote:


You need to expand your horizons and stop paying so much attention to
libertarian nonsense and right-wing media. Perhaps you can audit a local
university liberal arts course in critical thinking.



There you go again.


Harry seems to think that a degree he got during the Nixon
administration from a college nobody has ever heard of, allows him to
denigrate others.



I got my first college degree during the Johnson Administration and my
second during the Nixon Administration. The concepts of and teaching of
courses in critical thinking haven't changed, and, considering your
earlier post in this thread, you might benefit from those courses.


According to you a degree is obsolete at time of receipt.



You are not a careful reader.




I read your post.


You didn't understand it.


Oh, I understand you perfectly. A pompousee.

On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 16:43:26 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:

On 10/16/15 4:30 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 15:07:55 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:

On 10/16/15 2:26 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 13:09:50 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 10/16/2015 11:47 AM, Keyser Söze wrote:


You need to expand your horizons and stop paying so much attention to
libertarian nonsense and right-wing media. Perhaps you can audit a local
university liberal arts course in critical thinking.



There you go again.


Harry seems to think that a degree he got during the Nixon
administration from a college nobody has ever heard of, allows him to
denigrate others.



I got my first college degree during the Johnson Administration and my
second during the Nixon Administration. The concepts of and teaching of
courses in critical thinking haven't changed, and, considering your
earlier post in this thread, you might benefit from those courses.

Anyone who disagrees with you seems to lack that skill it seems.
That is exactly why I wouldn't want a blathering professor, who went
to school at 5 and never left, telling me how I am supposed to think.


You still don't get it. Professors and a curriculum of the proper
courses don't tell you what to think, or what you are supposed to think,
they help you learn how to think. That's the difference you don't get.

No I don't. If you don't know how to think, no school will ever teach
you.
I understand that going to college will expose your mind to things you
might not normally get to think about but only if you don't look.
At this stage in our lives there is very little that we have not been
able to think about if we want to.
Your speech is more appropriate for a 17 year old in the public school
system

On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 16:44:08 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:

According to you a degree is obsolete at time of receipt.

Not if it wasn't about anything useful or topical.



It's always fun to see the critical thinkers here espousing what they
think is "useful" or "topical."

Hey I was trying to throw you a bone. ;-)
Was your degree obsolete the day you got it?

On 10/16/15 11:58 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 16:44:08 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:

According to you a degree is obsolete at time of receipt.

Not if it wasn't about anything useful or topical.



It's always fun to see the critical thinkers here espousing what they
think is "useful" or "topical."

Hey I was trying to throw you a bone. ;-)
Was your degree obsolete the day you got it?


Of course. I avoided trade school courses.

On Sat, 17 Oct 2015 11:10:28 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:

On 10/16/15 11:58 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 16:44:08 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:

According to you a degree is obsolete at time of receipt.

Not if it wasn't about anything useful or topical.



It's always fun to see the critical thinkers here espousing what they
think is "useful" or "topical."

Hey I was trying to throw you a bone. ;-)
Was your degree obsolete the day you got it?


Of course. I avoided trade school courses.

Yup useless information never goes out of style.

When you are dealing with useful education, you need continuing
education. I just finished my inspector hours the other day.

On 10/17/15 12:15 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 17 Oct 2015 11:10:28 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:

On 10/16/15 11:58 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 16:44:08 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:

According to you a degree is obsolete at time of receipt.

Not if it wasn't about anything useful or topical.



It's always fun to see the critical thinkers here espousing what they
think is "useful" or "topical."

Hey I was trying to throw you a bone. ;-)
Was your degree obsolete the day you got it?


Of course. I avoided trade school courses.

Yup useless information never goes out of style.

When you are dealing with useful education, you need continuing
education. I just finished my inspector hours the other day.


There's "the rub" again...your anti-intellectualism, of course.

I got my first newspaper job partly because I sat next to the Managing
Editor of a big-time newspaper at a party, and during the course of the
evening while we were drinking ourselves into semi-unconsciousness, we
discussed medieval and Elizabethan writers and historical characters and
modern Irish writers, all of which I studied intensely in college. That
was near the end of my junior year. The interactions of students and
professors in seminars was valuable to my studies, and provided insights
I would have not gotten by reading alone.

Before the party broke up, he asked if I wanted a summer job and told me
to be at his office the next morning if I did. Useful, non-trade-related
information got me in the door.

After I got my master's, I was offered a job at a major publishing house
as an editor of rather esoteric books. I didn't study the subjects at
hand, but I knew enough from the sort of master's level work I did to be
considered for that job. Useful, non-trade-related information strikes
again.